Americans who settled in the People's Republic of China, especially those who participated in the building of Communism, such as:

Chinese American, US citizens/residents of Chinese origin or descent

Sino-American relations

Eurasian (mixed ancestry)

American-born Chinese, a subset of the above category

In its original meaning, an Amerasian is a person born in Asia, to a U.S. military father and an Asian mother. Colloquially, the term has sometimes been considered synonymous with Asian American, to describe any person of mixed Asian and American...

Ma Haide, formerly George Hatem, a doctor and public health official

Joan Hinton (a former nuclear physicist) and her husband Erwin Engst, who worked in agriculture near Beijing and made significant contributions to the dairy industry

Sidney Rittenberg, an interpreter, scholar, and former member of the Communist Party of China, who eventually returned to the United States

Sidney Shapiro, translator of the Chinese classic Water Margin.

Persons of mixed "American" (usually meaning White American) and Han Chinese descent; see: