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Hunxue'er ( Chinese : 混 血 ? ) ^[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 [ edit ]

For decades following the Chinese Revolution of 1949 , 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 . ^{[ citation needed ]} 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 [ edit ]

• Chloe Bennet
• Maj. Art Chin ( Sino-Japanese War/WWII veteran combat aviator for the Chinese Air Force ) ^{[7] [8]}
• Ding Hui
• Nancy Kwan
• Bruce Lee
• Lin Hu
• Lou Jing
• Karen Mok
• Anthony Wong
• Celina Jade
• Michelle Reis

See also [ edit ]

• Indo people
• Eurasian Singaporeans

References [ edit ]

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