What does で means in this sentence?


  * 中国人で日本語が話せる方

I think it's traduction would be:

  * Chinese people who can speak Japanese

But I have searched for references of this で usage yet I haven't find
anything.




Rather than a particle, this で is the [te-
form](https://www.imabi.net/theparticlete.htm) of だ.

So the meaning of the relative clause attached to 方 is: “is a Chinese person
**and** can speak Japanese”.

You can compare it to the で you put after na-adjectives (example also from
imabi):

>   6. 東京は賑やか **で** 面白い。  
>  Tōkyō wa nigiyaka de omoshiroi.  
>  Tokyo is lively and interesting.
>

Nouns and na-adjectives are not so different, after all.

