The Chinese Diaspora

Rating:
Summary: a very varied group
Review: The authors give us an engaging look at the Overseas Chinese. A varied and largely successful diaspora, ranging from south east Asia to the Pacific and the Americas, and onto Europe. American and Australian readers may note the role that the Chinese helped play, in the development of these regions. Especially in the gold rushes of the 19th century, from California to Ballarat.

The book also explains how the success of this diaspora helped in some fashion to keep alive an inspiration of business during the decades of communism in China. Till eventually a pragmatic change in government policy, and the encouragement of overseas investment, helped benefit millions in China. There is an irony here. A nominally communist China is now writing a new chapter in the history of world capitalism.