Multiracial people in China
混血兒 / 混血儿 | |
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| Mixed race |
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| 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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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.
History
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hilton, Isabel (2009-11-05). "How volleyball and pop have shaken China's idea of race". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Can a Mixed-Race Contestant Become a Chinese Idol?". Time. 2009-09-23. Archived from the original on September 28, 2009. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "For China's Mixed-Race Lou Jing, It's a Hard Road to Acceptance". MTV. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Half and half, Chinese and Western, get best of both worlds". Shanghai Daily. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ Toy, Vivian S. (2008-05-04). "Stopping Traffic in the People's Republic". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "China's Changing Views on Race". The New York Times. 2009-12-13. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "浩气长存——陈瑞钿传奇". Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "World War 2 Flying Ace Arthur Chin's Amazing True Story". 7 October 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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