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ABSTRACT: Approximately 10 million overseas Chinese reside in Southeast Asia where they have economic power and political significance out of all proportion to their numbers.
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- United States
- Canada
- Australia
The immigration of Chinese to Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia first began, as noted above, in the early years of the Ming dynasty, via the expeditions of Zheng He. The Chinese used the islands of the Indonesian Archipelago as intermediate locations for their trade with India and the Middle East. One of the first settlements of Chinese i...
The country of Malaysia consists of a number of states and territories separated by the South China Sea into two regions of about the same size, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia. Although the two regions are about equal in size geographically, most of the country’s 32.5 million population – around 80 percent – lives in Peninsular Malaysia. Abo...
The Chinese perhaps first immigrated to the Philippines during the years of the early Ming as part of the expeditions of Zheng He. Pan has written that one of the very first Chinese settlements in Southeast Asia was comprised of Chinese from Fujian province in around 1405 in the area known today as Manila. Indeed when the Spaniards first entered th...
Chinese immigrants to the United States were banned for almost a century, but in recent decades, their numbers have increased dramatically (Sung 1967; Poston and Wong, 2016). Indeed, starting in 2013 to the present, there have been more immigrants to the United States from China than from any other country in the world, including Mexico. In 2013, t...
There are several main periods of Chinese immigration to Canada (Ng 1999: 234). The initial period was between 1858 and 1884, and it involved large numbers of immigrants from Guangdong and Fujian provinces. The Canadian pattern in this era was similar to the early immigrations of Chinese to the United States, fueled first by gold mining and then by...
Of the six countries specifically covered in this chapter, Australia has the fewest overseas Chinese, just under one million in 2014. Immigration from China to Australia has mainly occurred in the latter part of the nineteenth century and since the 1960s. Inglis (1999: 274) has noted that these two immigrations have “coincided with watersheds in Au...
- Dudley L. Poston, Huanjun Zhang
- 2021
Sep 21, 2021 · The overseas Chinese made significant contributions to their new societies. Whether in the tropical countries of Southeast Asia, or in the temperate nations of Europe and America, they pioneered the construction of roads and reclaimed wasteland in Southeast Asia in the eighteenth century.
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Overall, China has a low percent of population living overseas.
The Chinese in Southeast Asia have gained some measure of acceptance in the local scene. However, in recent years, with dramatic events such as the end of the Cold War, the globalization process, the opening up of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and ethnic Chinese investments in their ancestral land, people have begun to question the ...
- Leo Suryadinata, Tan Chee Beng
- 1997
There are over 40 million overseas Chinese, mostly living in Southeast Asia, where they make up a majority of the population of Singapore and significant minority populations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
