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Introduction: Chinese Overseas, China, Transnational Networks, And Homelands / Tan Chee-beng -- Comings And Goings: Pearl Delta Identities In An Era Of Change And Transformation / Graham E. Johnsonm -- Transforming An Old Qiaoxiang: Impacts Of The Chinese Diaspora On Panyu, 1978-2000 / Yow Cheun Hoe -- The Shishan Ye People In Malaysia And The Ancestral Homeland In China / Tan Chee-beng -- Lukchin: Chinese Thai Transnational Bridge Builders / Jiiemin Bao -- Ethnic Homeland And Chinese Americans: Conceiving A Transnational Political Network / Pei-te Lien -- The Comintern And Chinese Overseas / Gregor Benton -- Qiaoxiang And The Diversity Of Chinese Settlements In Australia And New Zealand / H.d. Min-hsi Chan -- A Chinese Diasporic Community In Northern Thailand: Contested Political Loyalty And Shifting Ethnicity / Huang Shu-min -- The Chinese Of Trinidad And Tobago: Mobility, Modernity, And Assimilation During And After Colonialism / Walton Look Lai. Edited By Tan Chee-beng. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.