American Chinese

American Chinese

American Chinese may refer to:

* Sino-American relations
* Chinese American, US citizens/residents of Chinese origin or descent
** American-born Chinese, a subset of the above category
* Americans who settled in the People's Republic of China, especially those who participated in the building of Communism, such as:
** Ma Haide, formerly George Hatem, a doctor and public health official
** Joan Hinton (a former nuclear physicist) and her husband Erwin Engst, who worked in agriculture near Beijing and made significant contributions to the dairy industry
** Sidney Rittenberg, an interpreter, scholar, and former member of the Communist Party of China, who eventually returned to the United States
** Sidney Shapiro, translator of the Chinese classic "Water Margin".
* Persons of mixed "American" (usually meaning White American) and Han Chinese descent; see:
** Eurasian (mixed ancestry)
** Amerasian


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