Huaqiao

Noun

Huaqiao

1. A person or people of Chinese origin, living in a non-Chinese country.
   • In actual fact the main reason for the departure of “huachiao” from Vietnam is incitement from outside, under the influence of which hundreds of thousands of misled ethnic Chinese started leaving Vietnam, where they had been peacefully living and working.
     Provocations from the north against the...[1979 July 24 [1979 July 21], Nikolai Firyubin, “Soviet representative's speech at conference on refugees in South-East Asia”, in Soviet News, number 5981, London: Press Department of the Soviet...
   • Four days later, we were seated among other huachiao train bound for Canton, the transfer point in China for other destinations.[…]
     As the van negotiated the chaotic streets delivering its load of huachiao returnee^([sic – meaning returnees]) seated behind me kept up a running commentary on the...[1985 September 15, Rose E. Lee, “RETURN TO CHINA”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2023

   Synonyms:

   overseas Chinese