Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He has also held appointments at the University of Leeds, UK, University of Michigan, US, Murdoch University, Australia and Kobe University, Japan and served as Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Gregor Benton is Visiting Professor in the History Programme at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also worked at the Universities of Leeds, UK, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Cardiff, UK, and Malaya, Malaysia, and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.

• 1. Belonging to the nation: generational change, identity and the Chinese diaspora Gregor Benton and Edmund Terence Gomez 2. Segmented assimilation and socio-economic integration of Chinese immigrant children in the USA Min Zhou 3. Beyond Chinese groupism: Chinese Australians between assimilation, multiculturalism and diaspora Ien Ang 4. Contesting the ‘model minority’: racialization, youth culture and ‘British Chinese’/‘Oriental’ nights Diana Yeh 5. ‘After the break’: re-conceptualizing ethnicity, national identity and ‘Malaysian-Chinese’ identities Sharmani Patricia Gabriel 6. Beyond co-ethnicity: the politics of differentiating and integrating new immigrants in Singapore Liu Hong 7. Chinese descendants in Italy: emergence, role and uncertain identity Anna Marsden 8. Training for transnationalism: Chinese children in Hungary Pál Nyiri