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overseas chinese

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

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Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the People's Republic of China and Republic of China (Taiwan) or Hong Kong and Macau. People of partial Chinese ancestry living outside the Greater China Area may also consider themselves overseas Chinese. Overseas Chinese can be of the Han Chinese ethnic majority, or from any of the other ethnic groups in China.

Usage examples of "overseas chinese".

If Harry had his way, the Tang Consortium would put all its money into overseas Chinese communities in the form of casinos, banks, hotels, and shipping.

Besides, the crafty old bastard wanted goods that would appeal to Americans as well as to overseas Chinese.

One of his two partners in Consolidated Overseas Chinese is an agent of the PRC.

In Asia many business men--especially some of the overseas Chinese--would think nothing of commandeering one of the hotel's elevators around the clock for their own personal use, stationing minions in it, in eight-hour shifts, to hold their thumbs on the DOOR OPEN button, ignoring its self-righteous alarm buzzer.

The appearance of an overseas Chinese visitor with so much cash on hand was rare in those days, but not that unusual as there was a great amount of trade being conducted between Beijing and Hong Kong.

Hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese have returned for visits to their families in the past few years, from America, Canada, Europe, everywhere.

Perhaps because the man could see by my clothing that I was an overseas Chinese, a huh chiao, he spoke with surprising candor.

The first is betting on the Chinese triads, compliments of one of the Overseas Chinese’.

But you know she's related to anudder big overseas Chinese family wit' lotsa money and influence dere in Singapore.

The Anglo-Americans had their Manhattan, the Japanese hadHong Kong was a nice piece of work, but it was essentiallyWhen the Overseas Chinese came back to the homeland totheir monument to enterprise, they had done it here, and theydone it bigger and brighter, and unquestionably redder, than anythose other cities.

When the Overseas Chinese came back to the homeland to build their monument to enterprise, they had done it here, and they had done it bigger and brighter, and unquestionably redder, than any of those other cities.