Americans in China (

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of v ...

: 在華美國人;

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: zài huá měiguó rén) are expatriates and immigrants from the

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as well as their locally born descendants. Estimates range from 72,000 (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) to

Estimated number in China

In 2005, the number of Americans living in

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reached a historic high of Most expatriates living in China come from neighboring Asian nations. An estimate published in 2018 counted 600,000 people of other nations living in China, with 12% of those from the US; that means approximately 72,000 Americans living in China. Based on data collected in 1999, when 64,602 Americans lived in China, most lived in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

(48,220 in 1999), with smaller numbers in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 2 ...

(10,000),

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong ...

(3,200),

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

(2,382),

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu name Mukden, is a major Chinese sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Liaoning province. Located in central-north Liaoning, it is the provinc ...

(555) and

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese provi ...

(800).

Hong Kong

Since the

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in 1997, There are more Americans than Britons living in the territory, and 1,100 American companies employ 10% of the Hong Kong workforce.

Mainland China

According to the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China conducted in 2010, there are 71,493 Americans residing in Mainland China, the second largest single group of foreign nationals behind

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. Americans have been coming to China for job opportunities since 1994. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a growing number of Americans in their 20s and 30s headed to China for employment, lured by its faster-growing economy and good pay in the financial sector. Many of them teach

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, a service in demand from Chinese businesspeople and students and a growing number are arriving with skills and experience in computers, finance and other fields.

Institutions

American diplomatic missions in Mainland China: *

Embassy of the United States, Beijing The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District, Beijing. In ...

* U.S. Consulate General Chengdu (closed) * U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou * U.S. Consulate General Shanghai * U.S. Consulate General Shenyang * U.S. Consulate General Wuhan The

Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau The Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau, represents the United States in Hong Kong and Macau. It has been located at 26 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, since the late 1950s. The consul general is ...

serves Hong Kong and Macau.

Education

American international schools in Mainland China: * Beijing Saint Paul American School * Changchun American International School *

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* QSI International School of Chengdu * Dalian American International School * American International School of Guangzhou * International School of Beijing * Shanghai American School * Shanghai Livingston American School * Shenzhen American International School * Suzhou North America High School American international schools in Hong Kong: * American International School Hong Kong * Hong Kong International School

Notable people

* Solomon Adler - Economist * Ai Hua (Charlotte MacInnis) - Chinese television presenter *

Elijah Coleman Bridgman Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April22, 1801November2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. One of the first few Protestant missionarie ...

- Protestant Christian missionary * Frank Coe - United States government official * Erwin Engst - advisor to the People's Republic to China *

Joan Hinton Joan Hinton (Chinese name: 寒春, Pinyin: ''Hán Chūn''; 20 October 1921 – 8 June 2010) was a nuclear physicist and one of the few women scientists who worked for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. She lived in the People's Republic of Ch ...

- nuclear physicist * William H. Hinton - farmer and prolific writer * Dayyan Eng - feature film director * Isabel Ingram - tutor of Wan Rong, Empress and wife of the last

Emperor of China ''Huangdi'' (), translated into English as Emperor, was the superlative title held by monarchs of China who ruled various imperial regimes in Chinese history. In traditional Chinese political theory, the emperor was considered the Son of Heave ...

* Kaiser Kuo - Musician and

Baidu Baidu, Inc. ( ; , meaning "hundred times") is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the la ...

employee *

Henry Luce Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded ''Time'', ''Life'', '' Fortune'', and ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the America ...

- journalist and businessman * Stephon Marbury - basketball player * American McGee - game designer * Gideon Nye - diplomat, art collector, and merchant * Manya Reiss - Founding member of the

Communist Party USA The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian R ...

(CPUSA) * Sidney Rittenberg - journalist, interpreter and scholar * Glenn Duffie Shriver - Studied in Shanghai, arrested in the United States for attempted espionage, to which he pleaded guilty *

Agnes Smedley Agnes Smedley (February 23, 1892 – May 6, 1950) was an American journalist, writer, and activist who supported the Indian Independence Movement and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Raised in a poverty-stricken miner's family in Missouri and Co ...

- journalist and writer *

Edgar Snow Edgar Parks Snow (19 July 1905 – 15 February 1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution. He was the first Western journalist to give an account of the history of ...

- journalist * Mike Sui - comedic actor * Anna Louise Strong - journalist and activist * John Leighton Stuart - First President of Yenching University *

Gerald Tannebaum Gerald Tannebaum (, 1917 – 9 March 2001) was an American humanitarian and actor in China. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Santa Barbara, California, of Parkinson's disease. Early career After graduation from Northwestern Univ ...

- humanitarian and actor

References

Sources

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