Multiracial people in China
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Multiracial people in the People's Republic of China are those considered to belong to more than one race or whose parents are considered to belong to different races. In a Chinese context, this generally involves[according to whom?] one parent belonging to the Han majority and the other belonging to one of the nation's minority groups. In foreign coverage, discussion generally focuses on the children of a Chinese citizen and a foreigner.
混血兒 / 混血儿 | |
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| Chinese | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Mixed race |
hùnxuě'é
hùnxiě'ér
| Multiracial people in China | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 混血兒 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 混血儿 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | mixed-blood child(ren) | ||||||||
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History
For decades following the Chinese Communist Revolution, marriages between laowai (non-East Asian foreigners) and Chinese were unusual and perhaps even nonexistent during the Cultural Revolution, but they were never explicitly banned or judged unacceptable on a racial basis.[citation needed] It was only in the mid-1970s that the first petitions for permission to marry foreigners were accepted, with the thawing of diplomatic ties between China and the United States.[citation needed] Such marriages remained relatively unusual for another two decades.[1]
From 1994 to 2008, each year has seen about 3,000 more mixed race marriages in Shanghai than the previous year.[2] This has caused a major shift in China's attitudes to race and to Chinese children of mixed race heritage, because of globalization.[3][4][5][6]
Notable people
- Chloe Bennet
- Maj. Art Chin (Sino-Japanese War/WWII veteran combat aviator for the Chinese Air Force)[7][8]
- Ding Hui
- Nancy Kwan
- Bruce Lee
- Lin Hu
- Lou Jing
- Karen Mok
- Anthony Wong
- Celina Jade
- Michelle Reis
