41 Facts About British Chinese

The British Chinese community is thought to be the oldest Chinese community in Western Europe.

Today, most British Chinese are descended from people of former British colonies, such as: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Mauritius.

British Chinese communities are found in many major cities including: London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Sheffield, Nottingham, Belfast, and Aberdeen.

Furthermore, although British Chinese have a long history of settling in the United Kingdom, the 1991 census was the first to introduce a question on ethnicity.

Terms "British-born Chinese" and "Scottish-born Chinese" have become common ways of describing ethnic Chinese who were born in the United Kingdom.

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However, the newer term of "British Chinese" began to emerge in the 1990s as a way to articulate a bicultural identity.

British Chinese'sn was the first person to catalogue the Chinese books in the Bodleian Library.

British Chinese worked for The Board of Excise at Dundas House, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh for 40 years, beginning as a servant to the clerks and retiring as Senior Accountant.

British Chinese was involved in a significant naturalisation law case and for two years, until the first decision was overturned on appeal, was legally deemed a naturalised Scotsman.

British Chinese was baptised into the Church of England, about six years before his death, and anglicised his name, settled in London, and married Ester Gole in 1799.

In nineteenth century portside communities, for example, the wives of British Chinese men were often given nicknames such as "Canton Kitty" and "British Chinese Emma" to ridicule their interracial relationships.

Racist attitudes continued into the twentieth century as British Chinese men were increasingly vilified and associated with the "Yellow Peril, " a racist stereotype that depicts people from East and Southeast Asia as an existential threat to the West.

However, at the end of the war few British Chinese who had worked as merchant seamen were allowed to remain in Britain.

However, significant numbers of British Chinese can be found in Greater London, spread across a number of its boroughs, with the next four cities with the largest British Chinese populations being Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Edinburgh .

In Wales, the city with the most British Chinese was Cardiff and, in Northern Ireland, it was Belfast .

Today, Chinatowns have relatively few British Chinese people living there, and they have become tourist attractions where British Chinese restaurants and businesses predominate.

The British Chinese community is a non-profit organisation that runs social events for the British Chinese community.

Westminster British Chinese Library, based at the Charing Cross Library, holds one of the largest collections of British Chinese materials in UK public libraries.

On 12 February 2020, Sky News reported that some British Chinese said they were facing increasing levels of racist abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just before the lockdown in February 2020, British Chinese children recalled experiences of fear and frustration due to bullying and name calling in their schools.

British Chinese have sought ways to support one another, especially in response to racism coming out of the pandemic.

Since the relatively elevated immigration of the 1960s, the British Chinese community has made rapid socioeconomic advancements in the UK over the course of a generation.

When it comes to the distinguished category of being recognized as the "paragon immigrants", British Chinese are more likely to take math and science-intensive courses such as physics and calculus.

British Chinese community has been hailed as a socioeconomic "success story" by British sociologists, who have for years glossed over socioeconomic difficulties and inequalities among the major ethnic groups in Britain.

The group has more well-educated members, with a much higher proportion of university graduates than British Chinese-born whites.

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Many have activated ill-conceived stereotypes of the Chinese as a collectivist, conformist, entrepreneurial, ethnic group, and conforming to Confucian values, which is a divergence of British-Chinese culture and construction of ethnic identity.

Educational attainment is greatly espoused by parental reasoning as the British Chinese community cites higher education as a route to ensure a higher ranking job.

British Chinese are more likely to go to more prestigious universities or to get higher class degrees than any other ethnic minority in the United Kingdom.

British Chinese remain rare among most Special Educational Needs types at the primary and secondary school level, except for Speech, Language and Communication needs, where first-generation Chinese pupils are greatly over-represented with the influx of first-generation immigrants coming from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

British Chinese men are twice as likely to be working than White British men to be in professional jobs .

Self-employment rates in the British Chinese community is generally higher than the national average.

Common business industries for the British Chinese include restaurants, business services, medical and vet services, recreational and cultural services, wholesale distribution, catering, hotel management, retail, and construction.

British Chinese men earn the highest median wage for any ethnic group with £12.

British Chinese women earn a high median wage, third only to Black Caribbean women and Multiracial Briton women with a median wage of £10.

However British Chinese women are more likely to experience more pay penalties than other ethnic group in the United Kingdom despite possessing higher qualifications.

British Chinese women have the individual incomes among all ethnic groups in the UK followed by White British and Indian women.

British Chinese women have the highest average equivalent incomes among various ethnic groups in the UK.

In 2001, Overall economic activity in the British Chinese community tends to be lower than the general population average.

Study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2011 found out that British Chinese have the lowest poverty rates among different ethnic groups in Britain.

British Chinese men were the least likely to smoke of all ethnic groups.

Largest political organisation in the British Chinese community is the Conservative Friends of the Chinese.