American-born Chinese

For other uses, see American-born Chinese (disambiguation).

American-born Chinese or "ABC" describes a person born in the United States of Chinese ethnic descent, a category of Chinese American. Many are second-generation (meaning that they have at least one parent born outside the United States) and were born after the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, which liberalized pre-existing limits on immigration from East Asia.

Note that in Australia, this abbreviation may also be used to refer to an Australian-born Chinese person.

See also

• Demographics of the United States
• List of Chinese Americans
• Jook-sing (竹升) is a Cantonese term for an overseas Chinese person who was born in a Western environment and/or a Chinese person who more readily or strongly identifies with Western culture than traditional Chinese culture.