Americans of Hong Kong birth or descent
Hong Kong Americans
248,024 (born in Hong Kong) (2021)
[1]
California ,
New York ,
New Jersey ,
Washington (
Seattle ),
[2]
Texas ,
Massachusetts Predominantly
English ,
varieties of Chinese :
Yue (
Cantonese ,
Taishanese ),
Hakka ,
Wu (
Taihu Wu ,
Oujiang Wu ),
[3]
Southern Min ,
Mandarin (
Standard Chinese )
Unaffiliated ,
Protestantism ,
Catholicism ,
Buddhism
Hong Kong Canadians ,
Hong Kong Britons
Hong Kong Australians ,
Hong Kong New Zealanders
Chinese Americans ,
Taiwanese Americans
Americans in Hong Kong ,
Overseas Chinese
Hong Kong Americans (
Cantonese : 香港裔美國人、港裔美國人、美籍香港人、美港人 ), include
Americans who are also
Hong Kong residents who identify themselves as
Hong Kongers (who see Hong Kong as their home and are culturally associated with Hong Kong, especially through descent, growth, birth, long term residence, or other types of deep affiliations with Hong Kong), Americans of
Hong Kong ancestry, and also Americans who have Hong Kong parents.
Hong Kong is a
special administrative region of China and before that it was a
British colony from 1841 until the
Transfer of sovereignty to China in 1997.[
citation needed ]
Many of the Hong Kong Americans hold both United States citizenship and
right of abode in Hong Kong . Other than the
US passport , many of them also hold a
HKSAR Passport or the
British National (Overseas) passport.[
citation needed ]
Most of Hong Kong Americans were born in Hong Kong, United States, or
Guangdong .[
citation needed ]
History
After the passage of the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 , an influx of
Cantonese -speaking Hong Kong immigrants settled in
Chinatown, San Francisco ,
California ,
Chinatown, Los Angeles ,
California , and
Chinatown, Manhattan ,
New York . In Chinatown neighborhoods, many Hong Kong immigrants opened businesses such as Chinese restaurants and supermarkets.
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
During the 1980s and the 1990s, a large number of high-skilled Hong Kong immigrants settled in the
San Francisco Bay Area , where many were employed by high-technology companies in
Silicon Valley . Many of the Hong Kong immigrants in the Bay Area resided in suburban communities, such as
Burlingame ,
South San Francisco ,
San Mateo ,
Fremont , and in the
Richmond District and
Sunset District in San Francisco.
[8]
[9] Many also settled in the
New York Metropolitan area .
Many Hong Kong immigrants also immigrated to
Greater Los Angeles 's
San Gabriel Valley in the 1980s and 1990s, most of them settling in
Monterey Park ,
Alhambra ,
San Gabriel ,
Temple City , and
Rosemead .[
citation needed ]
Population
As of 2012, there are 219,231 people in the United States who are born in Hong Kong. 96,281 of people born in Hong Kong live in the state of
California .
[10] 39,523 of the people born in Hong Kong live in
New York .
[11]
New Jersey ,
Texas and
Washington have 9,487, 8,671, and 8,191 Hong Kong-born residents, respectively. There is also a sizable community of Hong Kongers in the
Greater Boston Area , especially in
Quincy, Massachusetts . Massachusetts has 7,464 residents who were born in Hong Kong.
[12] All these numbers would have excluded those who were born elsewhere than Hong Kong (mainly the United States or Guangdong, China) as well as their descendants.
Notable people
Nathan Adrian – swimmer and
Olympic medal winner
Celia Au – actress and filmmaker
Jin Au-Yeung , professionally known as "MC Jin" – rapper, songwriter, actor, comedian
Brian Burrell – actor
Flora Chan –
TVB actress
Francis Chan – preacher
Jaycee Chan – singer, film actor
Melissa Chan – journalist
John S. Chen – CEO of
BlackBerry
Kevin Cheng – TVB actor
Amy Chow – gymnast and Olympic medal winner
Denny Chin – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–present), first Asian American appointed as a United States district court judge
Margaret Chin – member of the New York City Council representing Chinatown
John Eng – served in Washington state's House of Representatives from 1973 to 1983
Khalil Fong – singer-songwriter
The Fung Brothers – comedy and hip hop duo
James Hong – actor
William Hung – singer
Yuet Wai Kan – pioneer in the use of DNA to diagnose human diseases; helped set the stage for the Human Genome Project
Michelle Kwan – Olympic medal winner, ice skater
Nancy Kwan – actress and model
Kent Lai – tenured full professor,
University of Utah School of Medicine
Brandon Lee – martial artist and actor
Bruce Lee – martial artist and actor
Justin Lo –
Cantopop singer-songwriter
Jaeson Ma - Serial Entrepreneur, Artist, and Media Executive. Co-founder of 88rising, Stampede Ventures, and EST Media Holdings
Byron Mann – actor
Jimmy O. Yang – comedian
Robin Shou – actor, martial artist and stuntman
Harry Shum Jr. – actor
Vivienne Tam – fashion designer
Stanley Tang - DoorDash Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Sam Tsui – musician, singer-songwriter and an
Internet celebrity through YouTube
Margaret W. Wong – Hong Kong-born naturalized American immigration attorney
Daniel Wu – actor
Wayne Wang – film director
Martin Yan - chef and food writer
Coco Lee - musician, singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
References
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"S0201: SELECTED POPULATION PROFILE IN THE UNITED STATES" . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 17 October 2022 .
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"Host of Papers Cater to Seattle's Asian American Community : Media: An increasing inflow of immigrants is a major reason for the proliferation of such publications" .
Los Angeles Times . May 16, 1995. Retrieved October 4, 2013 .
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"Ethnologue report for language code: wuu" . Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 2011-12-31 .
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"Chinatown History" . San Francisco Chinatown. Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
^ Ronald Skeldon (1994).
Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese . Hong Kong University Press. pp. 256–.
ISBN
978-962-209-334-8 . Retrieved July 25, 2012 .
^ Ming K. Chan; Gerard A. Postiglione (1996).
The Hong Kong Reader: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty . M.E. Sharpe. pp.
174 –.
ISBN
978-1-56324-870-2 . Retrieved July 25, 2012 .
^
"As Chinatown Changes, the Neighborhood's Chinese Restaurants Move Away from Cantonese Food" .
LA Weekly . 11 January 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2021 .
^ Ronald Skeldon (1994).
Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese . Hong Kong University Press. pp. 242–.
ISBN
978-962-209-334-8 . Retrieved July 25, 2012 .
^ Foley, Michael (2007). Religion and the New Immigrants : How Faith Communities Form Our Newest. Page 42. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^
"2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates" .
U.S. Census Bureau . Archived from
the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2013 .
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"2008-2010 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates" .
U.S. Census Bureau . Archived from
the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
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Quincy's Asian American community is growing, changing
Archived 2015-07-06 at the
Wayback Machine ,
The Patriot Ledger
See also