Huaqiao
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 華僑／华侨 (huáqiáo).
Noun
Huaqiao
- A person or people of Chinese origin, living in a non-Chinese country.
- , number 5981, London: Press Department of the Soviet Embassy in London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 240, column 1:
- In actual fact the main reason for the departure of “huachiao” from Vietnam is incitement from outside, under the influence of which hundreds of thousands of misled ethnic Chinese started leaving Vietnam, where they had been peacefully living and working.
Provocations from the north against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and other countries of Indochina are continuing. All this cannot but stir up passions around the question of the departure of “huachiao”. Moreover, it is known for a fact that “refugees” from China have recently been planted in Vietnamese territorial waters and have then been passed off as Vietnamese refugees and sent to the shores of South-East Asian states.]
- , →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 September 2023:
- Four days later, we were seated among other huachiao train bound for Canton, the transfer point in China for other destinations. […]
As the van negotiated the chaotic streets delivering its load of huachiao returnee seated behind me kept up a running commentary on the cityscape unfolding before us. […]
It was noon when we arrived at the hotel for huachiao in Taishan.]
- , Sanctuary Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
- Unlike the Jews in Europe, the huachiao had a homeland to go back to. But for some time after the Communists took over in 1949, this avenue itself was fraught with great personal danger, if not altogether closed. In 1959 the Communist government decided to change the old policy and lure back overseas Chinese with their wealth and valuable foreign exchange.]
- , First American edition, Paramus, NJ: Homa & Sekey Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 269:
- No thanks to Baba, I found out that the government had put out many incentives to lure huachiaos, or overseas Chinese, back to the motherland. One of them was to grant them admission privileges to the best public schools. […] It turned out that as a huachiao, she was entitled to a place at the national university without so much as an exam.]
- , →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 277:
- Being postwar baby-boomers, they were the elites of Taiwan in the 1970s—well-educated, multi-lingual, and extremely diligent and persevering in overcoming their hardships while settling down in Canada. Being “reluctant exiles,” they have succeeded in planting their roots in Canada. Being Taijiao, rather than Huachiao, there is no reason for them to be lumped together with other Chinese in Canada or other early Chinese-Canadians from Taiwan in research.]