Legacy of the Overseas Chinese
Photo: Bob Jagendorf from Manalapan, NJ, USA., CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Chinese people fled poverty, civil wars and political instability back home to search for greener pastures in foreign lands. Many of them died along the journey, or found conditions overseas to be not much better than back home. However, a lucky few managed to amass substantial wealth, with many of them returning to their homelands to engage in philanthropy, and bringing many foreign influences back with them. This article will aim to explore destinations where you can explore their legacy.
UnderstandWhile Chinese people have been travelling overseas for millennia, most notably along the Silk Road, the first significant wave of Chinese emigration took place in the wake of the Voyages of Zheng He, who established a…
DestinationsMany cities around the world have a Chinatown district, some quite small and others with a population in the hundreds of thousands. These are often known in Chinese as táng rén jiē (唐人街), street of the Tang people.
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Eat and drinkChinese immigrants often brought their culinary traditions with them, but also adapted their cooking to the tastes of locals in their destination countries and availability of ingredients, thus resulting in entirely new…
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Legacy of the Overseas Chinese" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo: Bob Jagendorf from Manalapan, NJ, USA., CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons