混血兒 / 混血儿 | |
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Mixed race |
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Multiracial people in China | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 混血兒 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 混血儿 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | mixed-blood child(ren) | ||||||||
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Multiracial people in the People's Republic of China are those considered to belong to more than one race or whose parents are considered to belong to different races. In a Chinese context,this generally involves[ according to whom? ] one parent belonging to the Han majority and the other belonging to one of the nation's minority groups. In foreign coverage,discussion generally focuses on the children of a Chinese citizen and a foreigner.
For decades following the Chinese Communist Revolution,marriages between laowai (non-East Asian 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.[ citation needed ] 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.[ citation needed ] Such marriages remained relatively unusual for another two decades. [1]
From 1994 to 2008,each year has seen about 3,000 more mixed race marriages in Shanghai than the previous year. [2] This has caused a major shift in China's attitudes to race and to Chinese children of mixed race heritage,because of globalization. [3] [4] [5] [6]