Legacy of the Overseas Chinese Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ethnic Chinese residing outside of China
About Legacy of the Overseas Chinese
While Chinese people have been travelling overseas for millennia, most notably along theSilk Road, the first significant wave of Chinese emigration took place in the wake of theVoyages of Zheng He, who established a tributary relationship with theMalaccaSultunate in the early 1400s. Many Chinese men emigrated to Malacca and married the local Malays, giving rise to the Peranakan (or Straits Chinese) community whose culture is a unique fusion of Chinese and Malay cultures. In the latter stages of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China was being picked apart by foreign powers, while domestically it was plagued by corruption and incompetent governance, resulting in political instability and numerous civil wars. The Republic of China (1911-1949) also had internal problems such as warlordism, plus
Legacy of the Overseas Chinese Travel Guide Sections
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