Episode 1648
Hoa people
Sun, 2021-Nov-07 00:23 UTC
Length - 4:44
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The random article for Sunday, 7 November 2021 is Hoa people.
The Hoa people (Vietnamese: Người Hoa, Chinese: 華人; pinyin: Huárén or Chinese: 唐人; Jyutping: tong4 jan4) are Vietnamese people of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry, mostly to mean Chinese of more recent heritage from the 18th century, especially from southern Chinese states. They are an ethnic minority group in Vietnam and a part of the overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia. They may also be called "Chinese-Vietnamese" or "Chinese people living in/from Vietnam" by the Vietnamese and Chinese diaspora and by Overseas Vietnamese. Historically, ancient China exported cultural, religious and philosophical thought to Vietnam, where it gradually developed and Vietnamized on its own. Beginning as early as the 19th century, the Hoa people were known during the French occupation for siding with Mainland Chinese forces and French forces in heavily exploiting Vietnamese resources. Despite this, the Hoa community still exists in contemporary Vietnamese society today, either as descendants of Han Chinese who have immigrated to Vietnam over the nation's history or as more recent immigrants. During the time that Vietnam was under Chinese domination, there were many attempts to assimilate the Vietnamese. The reverse happened where the Chinese Vietnamized and rebelled against Chinese Imperial rulers. In prehistoric times, around the Red River Delta basin area, there were two languages spoken in Vietnam. One was Annamese Chinese, the language of the elites, Chinese immigrants and Sinicized native. The other was the Vietic, the language of the common folks, who were less Sinicized. After the independence of Vietnam in 938 or maybe even before that, the two languages started merging into what that would become Vietnamese language. The two people were assimilated with each other as well, and became modern Kinh. Hoa, those of more recent Chinese extraction from around the 18th century, played a leading role in Vietnam's private business sector before the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 and the reunification of Vietnam. However, many Hoa people from South Vietnam had their businesses and property confiscated by the North Vietnamese Communist Party after 1975 and fled the country, as well as the South Vietnamese who faced persecution by the Communist Government. This was then intensified during the Sino-Vietnamese War. From the Vietnamese Communist government point of view, the Chinese unloyal to Vietnam were regarded with deep suspicion, and had potentially teamed up with the French occupiers in seizing control of Vietnam's resources and labour, an almost repeat of the forces of Japanese imperialism leading to the Vietnamese famine of 1945, resulting in 2 million deaths of the Vietnamese populace.
Communist intervention was then deemed necessary by wide swathes of the Vietnamese population and the Soviet Union and is considered to be an ingrained symbol of the Vietnamese identity by some. From 1988 to 1996, with the Vietnamese government's shift to economic liberalization, the Hoa regained their finances. Many may have become enthusiasts of Hán-Nôm literature, the previous Vietnamese logographic script that was phased out when the Vietnamese Latin alphabet became enforced during brutal French colonial rule. Hoa clout however pales in comparison to the old days, where Vietnam has mostly diversified its economy, allowing global corporations to operate within Vietnam.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:23 UTC on Sunday, 7 November 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Hoa people on Wikipedia.
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