THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE OVERSEAS CHINESE AROUND 1990

abstract

• As a result of migration, often to geographically distant lands, today Chinese people are widely distributed outside China and live in almost every country of the world. Around 1990 almost 37 M overseas Chinese live in 136 countries, "overseas Chinese' being defined here as persons of Chinese ancestry living outside the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. More than 32 M of the overseas Chinese live in Asia, with more than three-quarters of them residing in four countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia). Generally, the overseas Chinese tend to live in countries with large populations; and among the overseas Chinese living in Asia, their number in a country is inversely related to the distance of the country from Guangzhou (Canton). -Authors

authors

• Poston, Dudley

published proceedings

• POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW

author list (cited authors)

• POSTON, D. L., MAO, M., & YU, M. Y.

citation count

• 52

complete list of authors

• POSTON, DL||MAO, MXX||YU, MY

publication date

• January 1994

publisher

• JSTOR  Publisher

published in

• POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/2137606

start page

• 631

end page

• 645

volume

• 20

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.2307%2F2137606