The Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia: gains and losses

... PRC undertook reforms and a move towards openness that produced impressive growth and strengthened Chinese diasporas living in foreign countries, giving them solid support and actually changing their entire image abroad. In addition, this new wave of emigration considerable increased the total population of the Chinese diaspora. According to Chinese experts , beginning from the late 1970s, over 10 million Chinese left their homeland, most of them moving to industrialized countries (seven million in total) and about three million to emerging economies, mainly to Southeast ...