British Chinese
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British Chinese, also known as Chinese British or Chinese Britons, are people of Chinese – particularly Han Chinese – ancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second-largest group o
Shen Fu-Tsung was the first ever recorded ethnic Chinese person to set foot in what is now the United Kingdom, having visited over 300 years ago in 1685
A woman holds a child in Limehouse, East London, 1920s.
Chinese Gospel Church in Liverpool.
A temple of the True Awakening Tradition of Buddhism in the London Borough of Brent.
Overseas Chinese
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An Overseas Chinese person is a person of Chinese ancestry or is a person of full or partial Chinese origin who traces his or her ancestry back to the Greater China but are living and working outside
British Chinese
…Chinese Britons, are people of Chinese – particularly Han Chinese – ancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second-largest group of Overseas Chinese in Western Europe after France. The United Kingdom has the oldest Chinese community in Western Europe. The first waves of immigrants came between 1842…
Guyana President Arthur Chung was the first ethnic Chinese President of Guyana.
Chinese merchants in Penang, Straits Settlements (present-day Malaysia), c. 1881.
Main sources of Chinese migration from the 19th century to 1949.
Chinese women and children in Brunei, c. 1945.