overseas Chinese

Definitions

A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country; a member of the ethnic Chinese expatriate or immigrant community; Huaqiao

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“President Chiang Ching-kuo sent a message urging overseas Chinese to help⟳ reunify China under the Three Principles of the People. Overseas Chinese should join⟳ with compatriots and the military of the Taiwan area and the people on the Chinese mainland to support⟳ the anti-Communist cause and create⟳ a bright future for the Chinese people.”

“It was not until 1974 that the first Taiwanese businessman settled there, and thereupon began a gradual increase⟳ in the Overseas Chinese (OC) population.”

“OCPA stands for Overseas Chinese Physics Association. [...] The chartered goals of the organization are to promote⟳ physics research⟳ in general and to promote⟳ recognition of achievements by ethnic Chinese physicists in particular”

“With China’s rising wealth being chronicled on a near-daily basis by the media, overseas Chinese can probably expected to be targeted more regularly, either by opportunist criminals abroad or by envious people on the mainland.”

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