• the language situation of these communities can vary greatly amongst neighboring nations or even within. Mainly speaking Japanese and Chinese. generally...
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    Overseas Chinese people are people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). As of 2011, there...
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    Chinese. Chinese American Language and overseas Chinese communities "Appendix Table 2. Languages Spoken at Home: 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2007" (Table). United...
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    education, economic and informational exchanges organization between Taiwan and the overseas Taiwanese and Chinese descent communities. Its remit is not...
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    Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...
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    term "overseas service station" (Chinese: 海外服务站; pinyin: hǎiwài fúwù zhàn) and the associated phrase, "Overseas 110" or "110 Overseas" (Chinese: 海外110;...
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  • The Han Chinese or the Han people, or simply the Chinese, are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4...
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  • The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO) is an external name of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist...
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    of Chinese diaspora. Today's Chinese New Zealand group is also composed of diasporic communities from Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore...
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  • Chinese Burmese, also Sino-Burmese or Tayoke (Burmese: တရုတ်), are Burmese citizens of Han Chinese ethnicity. They are a group of overseas Chinese born...
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    China Youth Corps. According to the Chinese Canadian Archive, the original name of the program was the "Overseas Chinese Youth Language Training and Study...
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    sides in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities with its implications of political ideology and cultural identity...
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    The Sinitic languages (simplified Chinese: 汉语族; traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú), often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a group of...
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    centuries. Chinese Indonesians are the fourth largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world after Thailand, Malaysia, and the United States. Chinese people...
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    ethnic Chinese population such as Singapore. The term may sometimes be generalised to encompass "linkages among regional Chinese communities". The term's...
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    the official variety of Chinese in Hong Kong and Macau and is also widely spoken among significant Overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia as well...
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    spoken language, the aboriginals who speak aboriginal languages; as well as Mainland Chinese immigrated in 1949 whose native tongue may be any Chinese variant...
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  • study of Standard Chinese (a type of Mandarin Chinese) as a foreign language, the official language of mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore. However...
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    MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively...
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    rushes lured many Chinese to the Australian colonies in the 19th century. As with many overseas Chinese groups the world over, early Chinese immigrants to...
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    people of Chinese – particularly Han Chinese – ancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second-largest group of Overseas Chinese in Western...
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    by Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia (in a narrower sense with the Hokkien and Teochew peoples) . It links the Overseas Chinese business community of...
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  • as in overseas communities. In mainland China, Cantonese is the lingua franca of the Chinese province of Guangdong (being the majority language of the...
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    Chinese Singaporeans (traditional Chinese: 新加坡華人/華裔新加坡人; simplified Chinese: 新加坡华人/华裔新加坡人; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Huárén / Huáyì Xīnjiāpōrén) are Singaporeans...
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    variety of the Chinese language spoken in Chinatowns in Canada and the United States. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in...
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    United Front Work Department (UFWD; Chinese: 中共中央统一战线工作部) is a department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tasked with "united...
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    of their ethnic Chinese identity and the increasing role of Mandarin as a prominent language of Overseas Chinese business communities.: 184–185 : 59 : 179 : 55 ...
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    speakers of Standard Chinese, including those living in Greater China as well as overseas Chinese. Although both terms both refer to Chinese people, their usage...
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    typically born and raised in the Philippines. Chinese Filipinos are one of the largest overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. Chinese immigration...
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    Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (simplified Chinese: 华侨银行有限公司; traditional Chinese: 華僑銀行有限公司; pinyin: Huáqiáo Yínháng Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), abbreviated...
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