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{{quote|''"And when I get excited
''My little China girl says
''Oh baby, you just shut your mouth, she says..."''
|'''[[David Bowie]]''', "China Girl" ([[Covered Up]] from [[The Stooges|Iggy Pop]])}}
A [[Kawaisa|cute]] Chinese girl, usually with a [[Just a Stupid Accent|variable accent]]. Nearly guaranteed to dress at some point in a [[Qipao]] and put her hair up in a pair of [[Odango]]. A very high proportion (even for anime) will [[All Chinese People Know Kung Fu|know martial arts, always in a Chinese style]].▼
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[[Daddy's Little Villain|Evil Chinese girls]] grow up to be [[Dragon Lady|Dragon Ladies]]. Or they might have a [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|change of heart]] after years of helping their [[Yellow Peril|evil mad scientist fathers]].
Not to be confused with a [[China Girl]].
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
* The prototypical
* Shampoo, from ''[[Ranma ½
* Kulong in ''[[Happy Lesson]]''
* Ling-Pha from ''[[Battle Athletes|Battle Athletes Victory]]''
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* Tao Jun from ''[[Shaman King]]''.
* Lady Meow from ''[[Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran]]''. Yes, she also knows kung fu.
* Possibly Tenten from ''[[Naruto]]'', who definitely invokes the design, despite the fact that her world doesn't seem to ''have'' a China. In the databooks, her favorite food is ''Chinese food''. Team Guy as a whole seems to have a Chinese theme going on, from Rock Lee and Guy-sensei being [[Bruce Lee Clone
* Ranpha Framboise from ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' has many aspects of the
* Shenhua from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', who is often at odds with Chinese-American [[The Gunslinger|gunslinger]] Revy.
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"You got that, chinglish?"]]
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** The two that ''do'' follow this trope's stereotypes, however, are the [[Creepy Twins]] Yu Fang and Yu Lan. One of them wore their hair in the [[Odango]] hairstyle at one point, and was even wearing a Qipao. And they both know martial arts (a whole lot better than Mao).
* Mei Chan from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Although there are other "Chinese" characters (it's called Xing, but it's [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|basically]] China), Mei is the only one with the clothes and the hair (and a panda).
* Taiwan and Vietnam from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', at least in looks. Also, the originally male China in the [[Gender Flip
** [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|China's gender]] [[Viewer Gender Confusion|does not have to be]] [[Gender Flip|flipped.]]
* I-Pin from [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]] is a good example of this, {{spoiler|particularly once she's hit with the Ten Year Bazooka.}}
* Chyna from ''[[Afganisu-tan|Afghanis-tan]], as she is a [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of China.
* Vivian Wong from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Aside from having her hair up in [[Odango]], she goes around waving fans and a duel disk, wears a yellow qipao and apparently knows enough kung-fu to fix Grandpa's back.. or break it, as the case may be. She also has an anime-only Monster Card called [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Kung_Fu_Nyan_Nyan Kung-Fu Nyan-Nyan] that fits the Trope too. At some point, [[Lovely Angels|she and Mai Kujaku]] duel the Paradox brothers on the Great Wall of China.
* Li-en in ''[[Gash Bell]]''.
* Ma Renka in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]''.
* [[Yun Yun]] and Liang-Qi from ''[[Canaan]]''.
* ''[[Darker
* Chi-Chi from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''.
* Lum Cheng from ''[[Silent Moebius]]''.
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* Kou Shuurei and all the other female characters in ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]'', which is a fictional version of [[Stereotypes of Chinese People|China]] after all. However, they all wear Han period costumes and not the traditional ''qipao'' of the Manchu period.
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* Aki Chung-Feng and Shenhua "The [[Dragon Lady]]" Jiang from [[One Piece: Parallel Works]]. While Aki is [[The Ingenue]] who is usually dressed in a [[Qipao]], the [[Dragon Lady]]... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Is a Dragon Lady]].
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* Mele from ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'' is an example, though seeing as how ''Gekiranger'' is essentially [[Super Sentai]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Wuxia]], she's hardly the only Japanese person in the show to practice Chinese-style martial arts.
** Then, there's the ''android assistant'' Colon from ''[[Choujuu Sentai Liveman]].'' A Chinese robot girl... who moonwalks. And won't hesitate to hop into one of the vehicles and make some [[People in Rubber Suits]] eat missiles when the Rangers are in trouble. And her (removable) [[Odango
** Lin from ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]''.
* "Snow White" in ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' is one of the biggest and scariest drug princesses in the Pacific. [[Little Miss Badass|At age 19]]. She is pictured as an underworld contact when Magnum wants information about an unusually expensive hit that few would have the resources for.
== Theatre ==
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* Li Xiangfei from ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters]]''
* Pai Chan (pictured above) and Eileen from ''[[Virtua Fighter]]''.
* Li Kohran from ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' serves both as the
* Given [[Imperial China|the]] [[All Myths Are True|setting]], [[Jade Empire]] obviously has a lot of them.
* Jam Kuradoberi in ''[[Guilty Gear]]''.
** And her [[Spiritual Successor]] from ''[[
* Ada Wong, from the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games in which Leon appears.
** Also Wong Ling from ''Resident Evil: Dead Aim''.
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* Hotel receptionist/Secret Agent Xian Mei in ''[[Dead Island]]''.
* Leinyan from the ''[[Do Don Pachi]]'' series wears a stereotypical chinese dress, and one piece of artwork for ''DoDonPachi DaiOuJou Black Label EXTRA'' shows her serving dim sum at the mess hall.
* Peach cosplays as one in one stage of ''[[Princess Peach Showtime!]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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