What do you mean by overseas Chinese?

Overseas Chinese refer to China citizens who are designated to live abroad.

"China" and "overseas Chinese" are very clear in terms of the meaning of one word. "Hua" is the ancient name of China, and "Overseas Chinese" means living as a stranger or a guest. In ancient China, people living in other countries were called "overseas Chinese" and "overseas Chinese". With the rapid increase of the number of people living abroad, the words "Hua" and "Overseas Chinese" have been linked together to address China people living abroad.

1878, Chen Lanbin, Minister of the Qing Dynasty to the United States, called China people living abroad "expatriates" in his memorial. "Expatriate" has become a special term. 1883, Zheng used the word "overseas Chinese" in his memorial to Li Hongzhang.

1904, the foreign affairs department of the Qing government mentioned in a petition about setting up consulates overseas that "setting up consulates overseas costs little and overseas Chinese benefit a lot." Since then, the word "overseas Chinese" has become a special name for China people living abroad.

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The history of China people emigrating overseas;

In the first period, from the Tang Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty (6 18- 1270), overseas Chinese gradually appeared.

The second period, from Yuan Dynasty to the middle of Qing Dynasty (127 1- 1840), was a period when overseas Chinese went abroad in large numbers and their social and economic foundation in the host country was gradually established.

The third period, from the Opium War to the eve of liberation (184 1- 1949), was the climax of large-scale migration of overseas Chinese.

The fourth period, from the establishment of 1949 People's Republic of China (PRC) to the 1990s. During this period, the history of overseas Chinese going abroad in large numbers basically ended.