American Chinese may refer to:
- Sino-American relations, the relations between mainland China and the United States
- Chinese American, US citizens/residents of Chinese origin or descent
- American-born Chinese, a subset of the above category
- Chinese American cuisine, Chinese cuisine developed by Chinese immigrants to the United States
- Americans in China, especially those who participated in the building of Communism, such as:
- Ma Haide (George Hatem) (1910–1988), 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 Chinese descent; see:
- Eurasian (mixed ancestry), people of mixed Asian and European ancestry
- Amerasian
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or chinese:
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)
“We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)