Sino-Mauritian

Sino-Mauritians, also referred to as Chinese Mauritians or Mauritian Chinese, are overseas Chinese who reside in Mauritius. They form about 3% of the local population. Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been "shanghaied" from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing; however, they soon we... more
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