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Chinese Australians ... 685,274 persons declared that they spoke Mandarin at home (the most common language spoken at home in Australia after English at 2.8% ...
Chinese Australians also showed the support for the republic with monetary donations. In 1913 Chinese Australians, Chinese New Zealanders and others in the Chinese diaspora in the Pacific donated £36,000 to China. A letter of thank you to the Chinese Australians from the Finance Minister of the Republic is on display at the Golden Dragon Museum.
In the same census, 980,555 Australians indicated that they mainly spoke either Mandarin or Cantonese at home, representing 4.0% of the national population, making it the second-most spoken language in Australia after English. The Chinese language is an important part of the Chinese Australian identity. [2]
First Chinese Australian to own a winner of the Melbourne Cup. Hunter Poon: first player of Chinese descent to appear in Australian first-class cricket; Esther Qin: diver; Amy Sayer: association footballer; Dannie Seow: Australian rules footballer; Kenneth To: swimmer; Li Tu: tennis player; Jack Wunhym: Australian rules footballer; William Yang ...
Barry Pang (born 1951), Chinese Australian martial artist; Ben Hollioake (1977–2002), Australian-born England international cricket player; Catriona Bisset (born 1994), Australian middle-distance runner; Chen Hsuan-yu (born 1993), Australian badminton player; Chen Shaoliang), Chinese Australian rules football player
Australians in China include Australian expatriates in China, international students, Chinese Australians as well as Chinese people of Australian descent. In 2001, there were over 55,000 Australians present in China. [1] Of them, over 2,000 lived in the capital Beijing, an estimated 3,900 in Guangzhou and about 2,500 in Shanghai.
Asian Australians are Australians of Asian ancestry, including naturalised Australians who are immigrants from various regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants. At the 2021 census, the proportion of the population identifying as Asian amounted to 17.4 percent with breakdowns of 6.5 percent from Southern and Central Asia, 6.4 percent from North-East Asia, and 4.5 percent from South ...
The predominant language among Hongkongers is Cantonese, a variety of Chinese originating in Guangdong. It is spoken by 93.7% of the population Slightly over half the population (58.7%) speaks English, the other official language; 4.6% are native speakers, and 54.1% speak English as a second language. [3]