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
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.
Malaysian Chinese
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Malaysian Chinese or Chinese Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Chinese ethnicity. They form the second-largest ethnic group in Malaysia, after the Malay-majority, and as of 2020, constituted 23.2%
Overseas Chinese
…海外中國人，海外中国人 Total population 60,000,000 10,500,000 (born in mainland China, 2023) Regions with significant populations Thailand 9,392,792 (2012) Malaysia 7,527,793 (2020) United States 5,457,033 (2023) Indonesia 3,280,000 (2020) Singapore 2,675,521 (2020) Peru 2,500,000 (2020) Myanmar 1,725,794 (2011) Canada…
The Tow Boh Keong Temple in Penang, Malaysia during Chinese New Year
A Chinese junk in the Kinabatangan District of northern Borneo, photographed by Martin Johnson c. 1935
1860–1900 photograph of Bukit Cina (Chinese Hill) in Malacca, one of Malaysia's oldest Chinese cemeteries
The Hai San Secret Society's "Captain China" with his followers in Selangor, June 1874