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Chinese Peruvian

A Chinese Peruvian, also known as tusan, a loanword from , is a person of Chinese ancestry born in Peru, or who has made Peru his or her adopted homeland.

Most Chinese Peruvians are multilingual. In addition to Spanish, Quechua, and English, many of them speak one or more Chinese dialects that may include Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, and Taiwanese. Since the first Chinese immigrants came from Macao, some of them also speak Portuguese.

In Peru, Asian Peruvians are estimated at 3% of the population, but one source places the number of citizens with some Chinese ancestry at 4.2 million, which ...

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