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However, Chinese women rarely married Afro-Jamaican men. Interracial marriage became less common as the number of women of Chinese descent in Jamaica grew. [8] Nevertheless, by the 1943 census, nearly 45% of Jamaicans with some Chinese ancestry fell into the census category of "Chinese coloured" (mixed Chinese and African descent). [9]
Chinese Caribbean people (sometimes Sino-Caribbean people ) are people who are predominantly of Han Chinese ethnic origin living in the Caribbean. There are small but significant populations of Chinese and their descendants in all countries of the Greater Antilles. They are all part of the large Chinese diaspora known as Overseas Chinese.
Diplomatic relations between China and Jamaica were established on 21 November 1972. [1] The Chinese government established an embassy in Kingston in 1973. [ 1 ] There was no formal representation from Jamaica to China until 1992, when the Jamaican ambassador to Tokyo, Japan was accredited as a non-resident ambassador to Beijing. [ 1 ]
Kingston, Jamaica has a Chinatown/Chinese-influenced district. Jamaica has a history of Chinese, chiefly Hakka people from Guangdong province, and currently form less than 0.2% of the country's population, (6,000 Chinese residents nationwide and possibly tens of thousands of mixed African/Chinese people in Jamaica).
Jamaican people of Chinese origin and their descendants. Pages in category "Jamaican people of Chinese descent" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
When black and Indian women had children with Chinese men the children were called chaina raial in Jamaican English. [6] The Chinese community in Jamaica was able to consolidate because an openness to marrying Indian women was present in the Chinese since Chinese women were in short supply. [7]
During the 1960s and 1970s, substantial migration of Jamaican Hakkas to the US and Canada occurred. [6] [7] Most Chinese Jamaicans are Hakka; they have a long history in Jamaica. Between 1854 and 1884, nearly 5000 Hakkas arrived in Jamaica in three major voyages, with some of them subsequently going to the United States.
China plays an increasing important role of economic and developmental importance in the region and the relations with China have increased steadily over time. The Caribbean's relations with China, are largely defined as either: the People's Republic of China (PRC; "China") or the Republic of China (ROC; "Taiwan"). As of 2024, nine states in ...