Description
Chaoxianzu (Chinese: 朝鲜族; Korean: 조선족; RR: Joseonjok ), also known as Korean-Chinese, is the Korean ethnic group in China with Chinese nationality, is one of the 56 recognized ethnic groups by the Government of People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party and part of Koreans in China. They are descendants of Koreans who migrated to China primarily between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries and hold Chinese nationality. Their official name is Chaoxianzu in China. The term did not exist until after the 1910–1945 Japanese colonial period in Korea, and developed only around the 1940s to 1950s. The word Chaoxianzu first appeared in 1949, and officially became a meaning of the ethnic Korean minorities with Chinese nationality in 1953. Those of Korean not holding nationality from People’s Republic of China cannot legally be referred to as Chaoxianzu. Republic of Korea call them Compatriot with Chinese (PRC) nationality (Korean: 중국국적동포; Chinese:中国国籍同胞).
