Multiracial people in China explained

Group:Multiracial people in China
Native Name:混血儿, Hùnxuè'ér
Native Name Lang:zh
Related Groups:Mixed race

Hùnxuè'ér [1] is a Chinese term used to refer to people of mixed race. It literally means "mixed-blood child" and is used for all mixed race people.

History

For decades following the Chinese Communist Revolution, marriages between laowai (foreigners) and Chinese were unusual and perhaps even nonexistent during the Cultural Revolution, but they were never explicitly banned or judged unacceptable on a racial basis. It was only in the mid-1970s that the first petitions for permission to marry foreigners were accepted, with the thawing of diplomatic ties between China and the United States. Such marriages remained relatively unusual for another two decades.[2]

From 1994 to 2008, each year has seen about 3,000 more mixed race marriages in Shanghai than the previous year.[3] This has caused a major shift in China's attitudes to race and to Chinese children of mixed race heritage, because of globalization.[4] [1] [5] [6]

Examples

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Notes and References

  1. News: Half and half, Chinese and Western, get best of both worlds. Shanghai Daily. 2012-04-10.
  2. News: How volleyball and pop have shaken China's idea of race . The Guardian. 2009-11-05. 2012-04-10. London. Isabel. Hilton.
  3. Can a Mixed-Race Contestant Become a Chinese Idol?. Time. 2009-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20090928234522/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1925589,00.html#ixzz1rbETUzSI. dead. September 28, 2009. 2012-04-10.
  4. News: For China's Mixed-Race Lou Jing, It's a Hard Road to Acceptance . MTV. 2012-04-10.
  5. News: Stopping Traffic in the People's Republic . The New York Times. 2008-05-04. 2012-04-10. Vivian S.. Toy.
  6. News: China's Changing Views on Race . The New York Times. 2009-12-13. 2012-04-10.
  7. Web site: 浩气长存——陈瑞钿传奇. 12 December 2016.
  8. Web site: World War 2 Flying Ace Arthur Chin's Amazing True Story. 7 October 2015. 12 December 2016.