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overseas Chinese

noun

Definitions

  1. A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country

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

    • 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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overseas Chinese. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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