Overseas Chinese: Difference between revisions

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| native_name = {{ubl|{{lang|zh-hant|海外華人}}，{{lang|zh-hans|海外华人}}|{{lang|zh-hant|海外中國人}}，{{lang|zh-hans|海外中国人}}}}

| image = [[File:Map of the Chinese Diaspora in the World.svg|300px]]

| region2 = {{flag|Malaysia}}

| pop2 = [[Malaysian Chinese|6,892,367]] (2020)

| ref3 = <ref name="ACS 2023">{{cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2023.B02018 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=2024-09-21 |title=US Census Data }}</ref>

| region4 = {{flag|Indonesia}}

}}

 

[[File:Brooklyn Chinatown.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Typical grocery store on 8th Avenue in one of the [[Chinatown, Brooklyn|Brooklyn Chinatowns]] in [[New York City]], New York. Multiple Chinatowns in [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Manhattan]], [[Chinatown, Flushing|Queens]], and Brooklyn are thriving as traditionally urban [[ethnic enclave|enclaves]], as large-scale [[Chinese emigration|Chinese immigration]] continues into New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigration-statistics-2012-legal-permanent-residents|title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012 Supplemental Table 2|publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security|access-date=2 May 2013|archive-date=3 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403073333/http://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigration-statistics-2012-legal-permanent-residents|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR11.shtm|title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 Supplemental Table 2|publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security|access-date=27 April 2013|archive-date=8 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808080130/http://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR11.shtm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR10.shtm|title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2010 Supplemental Table 2|publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security|access-date=27 April 2013|archive-date=12 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712200141/https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR10.shtm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-05-09/news/29541916_1_illegal-chinese-immigrants-qm2-queen-mary|title=Malaysian man smuggled illegal Chinese immigrants into Brooklyn using Queen Mary 2: authorities|author=John Marzulli|publisher=NY Daily News.com|date=9 May 2011|access-date=27 April 2013|location=New York|archive-date=5 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505034445/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/malaysian-man-smuggled-illegal-chinese-immigrants-brooklyn-queen-mary-2-authorities-article-1.143516|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.queensbuzz.com/flushing-neighborhood-corona-neighborhood-cms-302|title=Chinese New Year 2012 in Flushing|publisher=QueensBuzz.com|date=25 January 2012|access-date=2 May 2013|archive-date=30 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330075918/http://www.queensbuzz.com/flushing-neighborhood-corona-neighborhood-cms-302|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[New York metropolitan area]] contains the [[Chinese Americans in New York City|largest ethnic Chinese population]] outside of [[Asia]], comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_1YR/S0201/330M400US408/popgroup~016|title=Selected Population Profile in the United States 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates New York–Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA Chinese alone|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=27 January 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214002005/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_1YR/S0201/330M400US408/popgroup~016|archive-date=14 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>]]

 

'''{{zh|p = Huáqiáo|labels = no}}''' ({{zh|s=华侨|t=華僑}}) refers to people of Chinese citizenship residing outside of either the [[China|PRC]] or [[Republic of China|ROC (Taiwan)]]. The government of China realized that the overseas Chinese could be an asset, a source of foreign investment and a bridge to overseas knowledge; thus, it began to recognize the use of the term Huaqiao.<ref name="wang">{{cite book|last=Wang|first=Gungwu|chapter=Upgrading the migrant: neither huaqiao nor huaren|year= 1994|publisher=Chinese Historical Society of America|title=Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1996|isbn=978-0-9614198-9-9|page=4|quote=In its own way, it [Chinese government] has upgraded its migrants from a ragbag of malcontents, adventurers, and desperately poor laborers to the status of respectable and valued nationals whose loyalty was greatly appreciated.}}</ref>