Overseas Chinese
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Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Overall China has low precent of population living overseas.
Main sources of Chinese migration from the 19th century to 1949.
Chinese women and children in Brunei, c. 1945.
1958 old photograph of Indonesian-Chinese of Gu (古) surname, first until third generations
1967 photo of Indonesian-Chinese family from Hubei ancestry, the second and third generations.
Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages. In Taiwan, the set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters. These forms were predominant in written Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of the predominant forms.
The east square of Guangzhou railway station in 1991. Traditional characters are prevalent in various brand logos, including 健力宝; 'Jianlibao Group', 飄柔; 'Rejoice', and 广东万家乐; 'Guangdong Macro'. Only 海飞丝; 'Head & Shoulders' is using simplified characters in their wordmark.
Job announcement in a Filipino Chinese daily newspaper written in traditional Chinese characters