Meaning of overseas Chinese | Babel Free

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.”

CEFR level