19th century to the North American railway constructionChinese labor
Chinese (Ancient said Chinese) emigrated legend began in the Shang Dynasty . Subsequent dynasties have little or as many Chinese business, fled, religious and other reasons reside overseas. Ming Yongle years of Admiral Zheng He's voyages after large numbers of people began to emigrate Sea countries (see: Malaysian Chinese immigration history ). Mid-19th century Opium War , after a large number of laborers, due to the needs of the industrial revolution in Europe and emigrated to the Americas , Europe , Southeast Asia and the world as coolies .

Directory
• A Shang Dynasty
• 2 Qin
• 3 Han
• 4 Northern and Southern
• 5 Tang
• 6 Five
• 7 Song
• 8 Yuan
• 9 Ming Dynasty
• 10 Qing Dynasty
• 11 related
• 12 References

Shang
• Shang Dynasty, Zhou destroy business, a large number of military and civilian Shang bamboo raft to flee east to the sea, some scholars believe that some of them living in , South America (the other said with Jizi east to Korea)  .

Qin
• Warring States or have ancestors from the Shandong Peninsula in the late Qin put the boat the Americas. As in Mexico discovered a "big man's tomb Saida" tombstone.
• Qin Xu Qin into the sea with a 3000 human medicine Immortality Going Fuso .
• Qin Dynasty, Qin man escaped slavery to reach a large number of Korean Peninsula south to become Chen Han .

Han
• Zhaojun , Han Emperor reign, Wang Zhaojun voluntarily married Hun (its sphere of influence in present-day Mongolia ).
• Han Dynasty at Nelson Chu I County residents dissatisfied Xian Li tyranny, fled Qudou Kun (now Malaysia Terengganu )  .
Northern and Southern Dynasties
• Northern and Southern , Singapore, a Chinese tomb stele engraved with Liang reign.
• Northern and Southern Dynasties wave music band party Han Chinese exodus Japan

Tang
• Tang Dynasty years, a group of monks, the Buddha passed away country to learn from, including the Yi Jing , transport period, Esq, intellectual shore, good deeds, Tomohiro, no lines, franc, MengHuai industry, said Hong, Chen solid, etc.; among monks MengHuai industry, nostalgia Buddha passed away , not to return home  .
• Xianheng years, FengZhe to the East Indian state residency monk, the monk Xuan swim residence country sub-division .

Five
• Five 943 years , the Arab traveler Marceau mention recording Sumatra there are Chinese people farming, Palembang largest Chinese community. They are Huang Chao fled after a failed uprising to Sumatra overseas .

Song
• Song Jiayou three years ( 1036 ), Jiayou four years, Annan Krupp take a large number of Chinese people to Annan
• Song Baoqing first year ( 1225 ) Zhao Rushi of " Zhu Fan Zhi " Bagan article reads: "State ZhugeWuhou Temple " .
• Song Song severe cases Xianchun three years ( 1267 ) Indian peninsula Caffery estuary Nagapattinam city with Chinese-style tile tower, high-Shu Zhang carved Chinese characters: "Xian Chun successful completion August 2003." Champa state-owned Chinese.

Yuan
• Yuan Yuan emperor positive nine years ( 1349 ) Voyager Wang Dayuan " Dao Yi Zhi slightly "record single Temasek has overseas Chinese settlers. There are a large number of Chinese settlers in the early Yuan Borneo Grand Island. Boni National beloved Chinese]. Malay Peninsula, ancient Chinese and locals Aralia door has mixed marriages.
• Chenla state-owned Chinese living business. Chenla customs, trade by women, so the Chinese to this, we must first marry Zhenla wives, and trade facilitation.
• Chinese sailors, because the rice Chenla, women, house easy to get, easy to do trading, often seeking to escape into ZhenlaLok .

Ming Dynasty
• Hongwu twenty-five years (1392), Ming gave Fujian 36 surname emigrated Ryukyu .
• Hongwu three years (1397), when residing Srivijaya more than a thousand supporters of the overseas Chinese in Guangdong Nanhai Liang Daoming as Srivijaya Kings  .
• Yongle years, the island of Java multi-Chinese from Guangdong, Fujian and other places to flee to come here, more from the back and forth to teach the door by sector Chizhai.
• Java has a village inhabited by thousands of households overseas Chinese, overseas Chinese termed gresik (now Gracie [Gresik]), the main village is Cantonese.
• There is a Chinese island of Java, East Village Du plate , overseas call kitchen Fujian Province , more than a thousand households in Zhangzhou , Guangdong immigrants  .
• Java Island, Sulu Ma Yi also has Chinese people live.
• Old Port (now Palembang ) residents mostly from Guangdong Chaozhou, Quanzhou come here to escape, quite fertile.
• Zheng Shi Jinqing when appointed to Palembang Pacification Commissioner .
• East Java has "the grand lady to serve Nachi" Biography Islam , the grand lady is Shijin Qing's daughter.
• Malacca with Chinese living.
• Java cis-tower King Lu Zili Guangdong Chaozhou , Yongle nine emissary tribute party thing.
• Orthodox years
• Bo mud has many overseas Chinese living there Zhangzhou people Zhang became that Governor .
• Chenghua years Dingzhou merchants Tse Man Bun to Siam country doing business, and later became officials of Siam, and ambassador to China.
• Masanori years Majapahit from Guangzhou , Quanzhou Overseas Chinese hundreds of families.
• Jiajing years, pirates Hui brothers, HE eight, ZhengXingyu other living Buddha large mud .
• Jiajing forty-five years, Chaozhou Jiangyangdadao Lindau dry attack Shao Ann , from the south to the villages, escape to North Port . After two thousand people gathered captured Pattani .Because of the king of Siam to help break Annan , by the Siam LuowangJia award given his daughter whom married. Lindau dry worked in Pattani build a large-scale gun factory, cast brass cannon.
• 1572 Spanish colonists Legazpi said that Manila has 40 married Chinese people living.
• Khanh six years ( 1572 ) Luzon there are 150 people living overseas.
• Wanli years, the Old Port King Wang Lian is Cantonese, Borneo king Fujian people. Wanli twenty-one ( 1594 ) Luzon has been inhabited by tens of thousands of overseas Chinese. Brunei Island has many Chinese, the Department of Zheng He left with the settlers.
• Pattani overseas a lot, Mojiancazhong. Zhang Pattani that Christ is the Zhangzhou people.
• Cambodia 's fence wood states (now Phnom Penh ), the wood for the city, a Chinese living in the land.
• Huang Zhong early 16th century the "Sea Songs," recorded Siamese state Milk Street, is a Chinese resident of the street.
• 1613 Portuguese people Yili Di draw Malacca map, which shows that the village Zhangzhou, China and the China Creek Village, apparently overseas Chinese living in the land.

Qing Dynasty
• ZhengChenggong rid of the Dutch, making originally Austronesian ethnic-based Taiwanese Han advantage since entering society.
• Kangxi thirty-five years, Guangzhou Changshou Temple presided Daisen was Vietnam Hue, the government appointed the National Division. Vietnam Hoi An Hong Kong has a long 3-4 in the street along the river, called the Grand Street, the street people to open stores in Fujian, row upon row. Vietnamese customs, trade run by women, so the Chinese to this, we must first take a wife, to facilitate trade. Hue has shut Confucius Temple and Fujian Hall, pointed Bilodeau has Fubo Temple.
• Yongzheng in Ha Tien town taking (also for Ha Tien, the other is also known as "Port State", which is now Vietnam KienGiang province ) Mo Jiu (MokKui, namely Mo Jiu, Vietnamese : MạcCửu) Guangdong Leizhou people , surname Che, for the ground ruler. Mo Mo Cong Jiu pass seat (Mok tong, namely Mo providential , Vietnamese : MạcThiênTứ), after about a hundred years.
• Qing Yongzheng, Guangdong ChenghaiLopburi (now Shantou Chenghai District, China Town) [a] person Zheng Da, crossed Siamese, ranking Ayutthaya , is a stall, after the rich, which is named Yong; marry Siam Luo woman Luo central fathered a son Zheng letter ; future ZhengXincheng for the King of Siam.
• Borneo Dai Yan King Wu Yuansheng Guangdong Jiaying people.
• Borneo Queensland Austin King Luo Guangdong Jiaying people.
• Java overseas number amounts to 100,000 people.
• Jiaqing years, Guangdong Jiaying remarkable person leaves, the Refugees Singapore . Jiaqing Dynasty, Johor king ordered the expulsion of the Chinese. Johor Chinese leaves to elect led, led the crowd beat Johor Wang; leaves to buy more weapons, sent people to return home, mustered more than Jiaying counties and neighboring tribe, across to Johor, bloody eight pacification Johor territory. At that time the Chinese in Penang, the conflict with the natives, leaves to mobilize people to assist in the fight, three pacification Penang. Posterior lobe volume loss to England from the forces of this two handed over to the British sovereign, self-preservation land ownership.

• Modern
• Guangxu Dynasty in Selangor and Perak mining tin laborers were a dozen people. Selangor WangdaiHua demanding work, laborers fighting, put down Selangor. At that time the Chinese have put down Perak Perak.
• French explorer Henri Mouhot "Siam Cambodia and Laos Annan Travels," recorded in 1859 in Singapore with overseas 50,043 people.
• 1821 Fujian Pinghe Han Wu Fuxing , twenty years alone crossed, came to Pattani , initial operating tin, established after the entrances firm, many Serbs crossing defected Wu Fuxing. In 1832, Peking University was incorporated into Siam , Wu's son Wu WanliFuxing was appointed as the first customs supervision, to rectify the tax, won the people praise.
• 1890 United States overseas 107,475, of which 8,000 people on the East Coast, more than 6440 people in New York, more than 1780 people in Pennsylvania, north to Alaska also has overseas trail.
• 1840 - 1870 European traffickers to Xiamen , Hong Kong and other places more than 70 million Chinese workers "exploitation" to South America as coolies . During the same period about 100 million ethnic Chinese to the United States and Canada, " Gold Rush ".
• 1868 , California due to gold mining and the construction of railways, requires a lot of labor. China and the United States and signed a treaty of commerce Qing, which is stipulated Chinese willing Article resident or naturalized United States, are not required to listen to its free forbidden. This entry is about the United States to China to recruit a large number of Chinese laborers to open the door.
• 1877 Cuba and Puerto Rico, there are 43,811 Chinese people, to the nineteenth century, reaching 90,000 people.
• 1881 4383 Canada Chinese people.
• 19th century, at the end, to Canada, built the Canadian Pacific Railway 's laborers have 7-8 million people.
• 1876 Guo Song Tao passing Malaya , recording Singapore Chinese about 200,000, Penang Hokkien Cantonese has 10 million.
• 1885 Chile 1164 with overseas Chinese people, to the nineteenth century reached 7,000 people.
• 1893 Mexico has overseas 3,000 people, 6,000 of them in Sinaloa when miners.
• 19th century Peru has OCBC 47,000 people.
• Early 20th century to settle in Canada there are about 1.9 million Chinese in British Columbia province of Victoria and Vancouver, the largest number (two to about 9,000 Chinese). British Columbia Chinese, mostly by fishing. Chinese Canadian living in poverty, there are one hundred thousand two possessions of only one.
• Restrictions in many parts of the early 20th century Chinese immigration, Canada immigration Chinese, levied 500 yuan poll tax , Australia fee of $ 100 head tax , New Zealand £ 30 poll tax imposed.
• 1891 Grenada has three overseas, Leeward Islands are Chinese 122 people, including 83 males, 37 females. Antigua has 69 overseas Chinese male 66, female 3; Jamaica Overseas 481 people, including 373 males, 108 females. Mauritius has overseas 3151 people, including three women.
• 1893 British Guiana with OCBC 30.
• 1899 Hawaii 27000 with overseas Chinese people, including 6,000 people sugarcane farm workers. In the Hawaiian Islands with overseas lawyers.
• 1900 Trinidad 2200 with overseas Chinese people, mostly engaged in business, miners and railway workers.
• 19th century, Myanmar Overseas Chinese about 4 million people, including 2.1 million people in Rangoon , about 1 million people in Mandalay.
• 1889 Indochina embankment with OCBC 14,944 people.
• 1890 Indochina Haiphong have overseas Chinese 5600.
• 1891 Singapore OCBC 121,908 people there. Penang has 87,920 people overseas, the late nineteenth century to 90,000 people; Malacca 29000 people have overseas.
• 1900 around Saigon with OCBC 73,857 people.
• 19th century Siam with overseas 150 million, of which 3.5 million people in Bangkok.
• 1891 Malaya Johor 's far more than the Malaysian Chinese, 200,000 population 150,000 people are Chinese, Malaysian 35,000 people. Negeri Sembilan have overseas 5511 people, including 37 women.Selangor total population of 81,592 people, mostly overseas, 50,844 people, mostly merchants and miners, most of them are Hakka and Cantonese . Pahang has 3241 people overseas, Perak have overseas 15,235 people.
• 1891 British Borneo total population of 7131 people, including 3627 overseas Chinese people, to the late nineteenth century to 20,000 people, mostly Hakka, Cantonese, Hainanese, Shantou and Xiamen; them do hard labor migration at the beginning, because industrious and shrewd, and soon became the store owner, lord of the manor and merchants.
• 1890 Java OCBC number of 242,000 people; Deli Sultanate and the Sumatra coast, there are 80,000 people overseas. Bangka 35,000 overseas Chinese tin miners when; 1892 Onam Bass Islands population of 1,500, of which 600 overseas Chinese.
• 19th century Filipino overseas Chinese estimated 100,000 people.
• 1888 Japanese overseas Chinese have 4,805 people; Yokohama have aliens 4218, of whom 2625 are Chinese; Nagasaki Aliens 1004 people, including 684 overseas. 1889 Hakodate aliens 69 people, 33 of them are Chinese; 1901 Furui Station 1761 with overseas Chinese people; Tokyo has 181 overseas.
• 1899 Korea 3134 with overseas Chinese people.
• 1882 Siberia only overseas Chinese ten come; 1895 Vladivostok reached three million overseas Chinese, mostly small traders.
• 1890 Australia Queensland have Huaqiao 7244, of which 92 are women. Victoria has overseas 12,123 people; 1900 3,000 people in northern Australia with overseas Chinese; 1901 New South Wales has more than 10,000 overseas Chinese people, of which only 677 females. Australia's first Chinese newspaper "in Australia Times" was founded in 1895 in Sydney ; 1881 There are 844 people overseas.Tasmania also has overseas.
• 1898 New Zealand 4585 with overseas Chinese people.
• 1891 British New Guinea there are overseas Chinese trio.
• 1898 British Overseas few in number, only 767 people.