Chinafolk

English Etymology From en China folk, likely after en Chinaman. Noun p en dated rare Chinese people. en 1895 w:Douglas Sladen Shanghai The Japs at Home. Fifth Edition: To Which Are Added for the First Time Some Bits of China.By Douglas Sladen, Author of “On the Cars and Off,” Etc. With a Collotype Portrait of the Author, and One Hundred Illustrations. London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic. Ward, Lock & Bowden,Limited, Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. New York and Melbourne. “Bits of China” section 284 https://archive.org/details/japsathome00sladuoft/page/284/mode/1up 2174964 Of course the first thing that struck us were the queer wheelbarrows used by the native population in place of the jinrikishas adopted from Japan for the Europeans. They are a cross between a huge wheelbarrow and a jaunting car; they have a division up the centre like the latter, and sometimes you will see a whole family of Chinafolk on the two sides. en 10 December 1928 China: Sure to Die w:Briton Hadden; Henry Robinson Luce Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine XII 24 Chicago, Ill. Time, Inc. “Foreign News” section 24 https://archive.org/details/sim_time_1928-12-10_12_24/page/24/mode/1up 2 0040-781X 1311479 When reports were first current (Time, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds’ eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. en 1969 Qantas Airways Australia 35–36 Sydney, N.S.W. Qantas Airways Limited 8 https://books.google.com/books?id=n3kpAQAAIAAJ&q=Chinafolk 173347913 In Chinatown, the scene is animated, colorful and noisy, full of ordinary housewives and children and a host of quaint, quite extraordinary old Chinafolk.