Americans in China (

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

: 在華美國人;

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...

: zài huá měiguó rén) are expatriates and immigrants from the

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as well as their locally born descendants. Estimates range from 72,000 (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) to

Estimated number in China

In 2005, the number of Americans living in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

reached a historic high of Most expatriates living in China come from neighboring Asian nations. An estimate published in 2018 counted 600,000 people of other nations living in China, with 12% of those from the US; that means approximately 72,000 Americans living in China. Based on data collected in 1999, when 64,602 Americans lived in China, most lived in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

(48,220 in 1999), with smaller numbers in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

(10,000),

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

(3,200),

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

(2,382),

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

(555) and

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

(800).

Hong Kong

Since the

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in 1997, There are more Americans than Britons living in the territory, and 1,100 American companies employ 10% of the Hong Kong workforce.

Mainland China

According to the

Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China The 2010 Chinese census, officially the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (中華人民共和國第六次全國人口普查), was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China wi ...

conducted in 2010, there are 71,493 Americans residing in Mainland China, the second largest single group of foreign nationals behind

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. Americans have been coming to China for job opportunities since 1994. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a growing number of Americans in their 20s and 30s headed to China for employment, lured by its faster-growing economy and good pay in the financial sector. Many of them teach

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, a service in demand from Chinese businesspeople and students and a growing number are arriving with skills and experience in computers, finance and other fields.

Institutions

American diplomatic missions in Mainland China: *

Embassy of the United States, Beijing The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District, Beijing. In ad ...

* U.S. Consulate General Chengdu (closed) * U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou * U.S. Consulate General Shanghai * U.S. Consulate General Shenyang * U.S. Consulate General Wuhan The

Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau The Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau, represents the United States in Hong Kong and Macau. It has been located at 26 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, since the late 1950s. The consul general is H ...

serves Hong Kong and Macau.

Education

American international schools in Mainland China: * Beijing Saint Paul American School *

Changchun American International School Changchun American International School (CAIS; ) is an American international school in Changchun, Jilin.Contact
." Changchun Americ ...

Concordia International School Shanghai I Concordia International School () is a private, Christian, international school located in Pudong, Shanghai, China. Founded in 1998, the school is a part of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). The school's opening came after extensive ...

QSI International School of Chengdu QSI International School of Chengdu () is a private international school in the American Garden development in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The school, using a U.S.-based curriculum, resides in two buildings.Dalian American International School Dalian American International School (DAIS; ) is an American international school in the Golden Pebble Beach National Resort (), in Jinzhou New District, Dalian, China, about east of the center of Dalian. It is owned by the Honor Roll Company.

* American International School of Guangzhou *

International School of Beijing The International School of Beijing (ISB, ) is a non-profit international coeducational day school in Beijing, China. The school was founded in 1980 and offers a dual English and Chinese language program for students from EY to Grade 12. ...

Shanghai American School Shanghai American School (SAS) is an independent, Non-profit international school located in Shanghai, China. Founded in 1912, SAS has two campuses and over 2,800 students enrolled in Pre-K through 12th grade, making it China's largest internatio ...

Shanghai Livingston American School Shanghai Livingston American School () is an international school in Shanghai, China. In 2015, it was the 10th most expensive school in Shanghai with an annual fees of RMB 169,000 ($26,600). History In 2001 former American Congressman from Loui ...

Shenzhen American International School Shenzhen American International School (SAIS, ) is an American international school in Shekou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. SAIS is a PreK-8 school that uses PBL ( Project Based Learning) as its teaching philosophy, and is heavi ...

* Suzhou North America High School American international schools in Hong Kong: *

American International School Hong Kong The American International School (AIS; ) is a private, independent, international school in Hong Kong founded in 1986. It delivers US standards-based educational program for students from early childhood through grade 12. AIS is accredited by ...

Hong Kong International School Hong Kong International School (HKIS) is an international private school with campuses in Tai Tam and Repulse Bay, Hong Kong. The school was founded in 1966. Today, HKIS spans from reception one to the twelfth grade. Its Lower and Upper Prim ...

Notable people

Solomon Adler Solomon Adler (August 6, 1909 – August 4, 1994) worked as United States Department of the Treasury, U.S. Treasury representative in China during World War II. Adler was identified by Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley as a Soviet spy and r ...

- Economist * Ai Hua (Charlotte MacInnis) - Chinese television presenter *

Elijah Coleman Bridgman Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April22, 1801November2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. One of the first few Protestant missionarie ...

- Protestant Christian missionary * Frank Coe - United States government official * Erwin Engst - advisor to the People's Republic to China *

Joan Hinton Joan Hinton (Chinese name: 寒春, Pinyin: ''Hán Chūn''; 20 October 1921 – 8 June 2010) was a nuclear physicist and one of the few women scientists who worked for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. She lived in the People's Republic of C ...

- nuclear physicist *

William H. Hinton William Howard Hinton (; February 2, 1919 – May 15, 2004) was an American Maoist intellectual, best known for his work on Communism in China. A Marxist, he is best known for his book ''Fanshen'', published in 1966, a "documentary of revolu ...

- farmer and prolific writer *

Dayyan Eng Dayyan Eng, known as Wu Shixian in China (), born in Taiwan in 1975, is a Chinese-American filmmaker of Chinese, English, and Persian ancestry, who grew up in three continents. He studied film arts at the University of Washington and transferred t ...

- feature film director *

Isabel Ingram Isabel Ingram Mayer, née Ingram (March 7, 1902 – 1988) was an American tutor to Wanrong, the empress consort of China of Puyi, the last emperor of China. Early life Born 7 March 1902 in Beijing, Ingram was the daughter of American Congreg ...

- tutor of Wan Rong, Empress and wife of the last

Emperor of China ''Huangdi'' (), translated into English as Emperor, was the superlative title held by monarchs of China who ruled various imperial regimes in Chinese history. In traditional Chinese political theory, the emperor was considered the Son of Heave ...

Kaiser Kuo Kaiser Kuo (; born March 7, 1966) is a Chinese American freelance writer and musician. Career Kaiser previously worked as director for international communications for Chinese search engine Baidu. Before that he was a technology correspondent fo ...

- Musician and

Baidu Baidu, Inc. ( ; , meaning "hundred times") is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the la ...

employee *

Henry Luce Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded ''Time'', ''Life'', ''Fortune'', and ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the America ...

- journalist and businessman *

Stephon Marbury Stephon Xavier Marbury (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player and current head coach in the Chinese Basketball Association. After his freshman year with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, he was selected as th ...

- basketball player *

American McGee American James McGee (born December 13, 1972)Birth record for American James McGee - Dallas, Texas, Birth Index, 1903–1997 - Ancestry.com is an American video game designer. He is best known as the designer of ''American McGee's Alice'', its ...

- game designer * Gideon Nye - diplomat, art collector, and merchant *

Manya Reiss Manya Reiss (also known as Maria Aerova, sometimes spelled Ayerova, , 1900–1962) was an American Marxist–Leninist and a founding member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Manya Reiss was born in China to a family of Russian-Jewish origin a ...

- Founding member of the

Communist Party USA The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revo ...

(CPUSA) *

Sidney Rittenberg Sidney Rittenberg (; August 14, 1921 – August 24, 2019) was an American journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in China from 1944 to 1980. He worked closely with Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Chinese ...

- journalist, interpreter and scholar *

Glenn Duffie Shriver Glenn Duffie Shriver (born November 23, 1981) is an American convicted of conspiracy to spy for China. He was depicted in the FBI-commissioned film ''Game of Pawns''. Biography Shriver was born in Henrico County, Virginia, near Richmond. When h ...

- Studied in Shanghai, arrested in the United States for attempted espionage, to which he pleaded guilty *

Agnes Smedley Agnes Smedley (February 23, 1892 – May 6, 1950) was an American journalist, writer, and activist who supported the Indian Independence Movement and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Raised in a poverty-stricken miner's family in Missouri and Co ...

- journalist and writer *

Edgar Snow Edgar Parks Snow (19 July 1905 – 15 February 1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution. He was the first Western journalist to give an account of the history of ...

- journalist *

Mike Sui Mike Sui () is a comedic actor and host in China who became famous for his "12 Beijingers" viral video released on April 27, 2012. Sui was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to a Chinese father and American mother, and grew up in Michigan and Beijing. ...

- comedic actor *

Anna Louise Strong Anna Louise Strong (November 24, 1885 – March 29, 1970) was an American journalist and activist, best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.Archives West,Anna Loui ...

- journalist and activist *

John Leighton Stuart John Leighton Stuart (; June 24, 1876 – September 19, 1962) was a missionary educator, the first President of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China. He was a towering figure in U.S.-Chinese relations in the first half o ...

- First President of Yenching University * Gerald Tannebaum - humanitarian and actor

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