Chinese Brazilians are people of Chinese

China

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 ancestry who were born in or have immigrated to Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. The Chinese Brazilian population was estimated to be approximately 151,649.

São Paulo

São Paulo

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 has the largest Chinese Brazilian population, in particular on the district of Liberdade

Liberdade

Liberdade is the name of a district in the subprefecture of Sé, in São Paulo, Brazil. It is home to the largest Japanese community outside of Japan in the world and has been growing since the 1950s....

. Besides being an area famous for its strong Japanese presence, a significant number of Taiwan

Taiwan

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ese immigrants have settled in Liberdade, and many Chinese immigrants have came to Liberdade following the Communist revolution

Chinese Civil War

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 in 1949. Many Cantonese from Hong Kong and Portuguese-speaking Macau, including some Macanese

Macanese people

The Macanese-born Portuguese people or simply the Macanese people refer to an ethnic group which originated in Macau since the 16th century, consisting mostly of people with some Portuguese ancestry.-Culture:...

 of mixed Chinese and Portuguese descent, have also settled in Brazil. These Macau immigrants can usually speak and understand Portuguese (its Creole, Macanese or Patuá

Macanese language

Macanese or Macau Creole is a creole language derived mainly from Malay, Sinhalese, Cantonese, and Portuguese, which was originally spoken by the Macanese community of the Portuguese colony of Macau...

, is also spoken), allowing them to adjust more easily to life in Brazil. Today, Chinese Brazilians are usually bilingual with Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 and Chinese.

Notable persons

• Anderson Lau, actor;
• Chen Kong Fang, artist;
• William Boss Woo, politician.
• Sou Kit Gom, artist-painter;
• Anthony Wong, infectologist-pediatrician
• Liu Ming Chung, entrepreneur, self made billionaire, no 582 on 2010 list of world billionaires of Forbes.com. The king of recycled paper.
• Lawrence Pih, business man - President of Moinho Pacifico, the largest flour mill in South America, Early supporter of President Lula da Silva
• Ken Chang, 張智堯, A Brazilian actor of Chinese descent, popular TV series star in Taiwan and China.

External links

• A Presença Chinesa no Brasil - Pesquisa Bibliográfica. Fundação João Nabuco/João Nabuco Foundation of Brazil together with the International Institute of Macau present: "The Chinese Presence in Brazil - A Bibliographic Research".
• Padrões de Linguagem nos Imigrantes Chineses - Diglossia. This is a scholarly article written in Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
  , the title meaning "Diglossie - Patterns of Language of Chinese Immigrants [in Brazil].