Chinese American

A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and are also one group of Asian Americans. Numbering 2.3 million in 2000, Chinese Americans make up 22.4% of Asian Americans (larger than any other Asian American subgroup), and constitute just over 1% of the United States as a whole.

See also

• American-born Chinese
• List of Chinese Americans
• San Gabriel Valley for a detailed discussion of a typical Chinese American community in California
• Chinese in Hawaii
• Chinese Puerto Rican
• Chinese Canadian
• Chinese Brazilian
• 1421 theory
• Demographics of the United States
• hyphenated American
• Immigration to the United States
• List of U.S. cities with large Chinese American populations
• model minority
• political correctness