Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora

With around 50 million people worldwide, the Chinese diaspora forms the largest diaspora in the world. Since the economic reform of China in the late 1970s, new migrants from China continue to migrate to different parts of the world and this has major impacts in local societies and in China.

This second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora provides a comprehensive study of the Chinese overseas including new migrants under the headings of:

· Population and distribution

· Migration: Past and Present

· Economic and political involvement

· Localization, transnational networks and identity

· Literature, media and personalities

Bringing together a significant number of specialists from diverse disciplines and covering the major areas of the study of Chinese overseas, the Handbook is an important and valuable reference work for students, scholars and policy makers worldwide who wish to understand the global phenomena of Chinese migration, transnational connections and their cultural and identity formation.