China and the Overseas Chinese

• Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Domestic Perspective: 2. Administration of overseas Chinese affairs; 3. Communication with the Chinese abroad; 4. Domestic overseas Chinese policy: 1949–1966; Part II. Policies Towards the Chinese Abroad: 5. The 'colonial' legacy: identification of problems; 6. Self-determination, nationality, and peaceful coexistence: 1954–1956; 7. Policy reasssessment, 1956: Foreign exchange and education; 8. An experiment in decolonisation; 9. The Cultural Revolution: overseas Chinese policy under attack; 10. Overseas Chinese policy: overseas Chinese communism and foreign policy; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

'This excellent study helps to nail a mysteriously persistent myth - the one about China's alleged 'fifth column' overseas in the form of the millions of ethnic Chinese resident abroad (particularly in Southeast Asia).' China Now