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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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The longest-established ethnic minority in Britain apart from the *Jews. There was a Chinese community in the port of Liverpool from the early 19C as a result of the trade in tea and silk with Canton, and the Chinese laundry soon came to feature in music-hall songs as an established part of working-class culture. Nevertheless more than half Britain's relatively small Chinese population (about 140,000 in the early 1990s) are immigrants, mainly from Hong Kong. A related import from Hong Kong is the Triad, a form of organized crime similar to the Mafia and with equally strong historical roots.
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