## Introduction  
The study of the African diaspora has focused on the patterns of dispersal of Africans in the world and the linkages maintained by overseas Africans with Africa (Zeleza, 2005, pp. 35-68). There are studies on history, patterns or linkage of Africans in Asia (Rashidi and Van Sertima, 1995; Jayasuriya and Pankhurst, 2001). A Chinese historian raised a question in Ghana in 1972, 'African influence has been found to be important in some musical traditions of Southeast Asia, why not further north?' (Chou Yi, 1972, p. 3). This chapter attempts to study the black/African presence in China from the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) to the present, mainly based on literature in Chinese. "Blacks" here refers to various black peoples, including Negroid, Oceanic Negroid and Negrito.