Chinese Filipinos

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Chinese Filipinos (sometimes referred as Filipino Chinese or Chinoy/Tsinoy in the Philippines) are Filipinos of full or partial Chinese descent, although typically born and raised in the Philippines. A large proportion of Chinese Filipinos can trace their ancestry back to the Chinese province of Fujian. Chinese immigration to the Philippines predates the Spanish colonization of the islands, but intensified between the 16th and 19th centuries, attracted by the lucrative trade of the Manila galleons. During this era, they were referred to as Sangley. These were mostly Hokkien-speaking people that later became the dominant group within the Filipino Chinese community. In the 19th century, migration was triggered by the corrupt and ineffective governance of the late Qing dynasty, combined with economic problems in China due to the Western and Japanese colonial wars as well as the Opium Wars. It subsequently continued during the 20th century, from American colonial times, through the post-independence...

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