This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China

With around 40 million people worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China whi

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

For the past century, all kinds of Chinese people seemed to have tried to be ?modern?. At the same time, the standards of modernity have been set elsewhere and

First Published in 1999. This volume is a product of the research programme of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, entitled International Soc