What do Chinese, overseas Chinese and Chinese mean respectively?

China people refer to people with China nationality, including people from Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province Province. Overseas Chinese refer to people who have lived abroad for a long time and have China nationality, but not necessarily China identity. Chinese-Americans refer to people of China descent, but not necessarily China nationality.

People who were born in China and originally had China nationality, but later became foreign nationals are called China people. Chinese-Americans are born with China nationality and become American citizens when they grow up.

Overseas Chinese have China nationality, but they have been living abroad. They work and live abroad, but they also have China nationality and China passport. If they encounter difficulties abroad, they can also seek help from the Embassy of China.

Chinese refer to people who have lived abroad for generations. Their elders are foreigners, have foreign nationality or have their elders settled abroad, so these people have foreign nationality since childhood, but they have China's ethnic origin. For such people, we call them China people.

Distribution characteristics of Chinese

Overseas Chinese mainly live in Singapore, where there are many local ethnic minorities, and Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, where there are few local ethnic minorities. From 16 to 19 century, overseas Chinese in these areas were mainly concentrated in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and later concentrated in Hainan province. From the tenth century to the fifteenth century, immigrants mainly went to Malacca and Southeast Asia.

Since the second half of the 20th century, the geographical distribution of overseas Chinese has also changed, showing a gradual dispersion from concentration, that is, from a high concentration in Asia, especially Southeast Asia, to areas outside Asia, especially Europe, the United States and Australia.