This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent. Long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent, the Chinese moved across sea and land, seasonally or permanently, to other parts of Asia and the rest of the world to pursue economic opportunities and alternative means of livelihood. This volume addresses the new Chinese diasporas around the world, offering a snapshot of the cosmopolitan and shifting nature of Chinese population dynamics from the perspectives of anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of international studies.

Min Zhou is Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications, and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is also Tan Lark Sye Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Researching migration and development, racial/ethnic relations, ethnic entrepreneurship, and diaspora studies, she has been publishing well-received academic studies in these areas since 1989. 

1. Intra-Asian Chinese Migrations: A Historical Overview.- 2. The Politics of Chineseness in South Africa: From Apartheid to 2015.- 3. Chinese Traders in Ghana: The Liminality Trap and Challenges for Ethnic Formation and Integration.- 4. Integration of Newcomers into Local Communities: An Analysis of New Chinese Immigrants in Zimbabwe.- 5. Debating Integration in Singapore, Deepening the Variations of the Chinese Diaspora.- 6. Chinese Migrant Communities in South Korea: Old Huaqiao, Chaoxianzu, and Xinyimin.- 7. The Formation and Development of Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in Japan.- 8. Chinese Immigration to the Philippines since the late 1970s.- 9. Ethnicized Networks and Local Embeddedness: The New Chinese Migrant Community in Cambodia.- 10. Rediscovering the New Gold Mountain: Chinese Immigration to Australia since the Mid-1980s.- 11. New Chinese Immigration to New Zealand: Policies, Immigration Patterns, Mobility andPerception.- 12. Identity Formation and Social Integration: Creating and Imagining the Chinese Community in Prague, the Czech Republic.- 13. New Chinese Immigrants in Spain: Migration Process, Demographic Characteristics, and Adaptation Strategies.- 14. Chinese Student Migration and Community Building: An Exploration of New Diasporic Formation in England.- 15. New Chinese Migrants in Latin America: trends and Patterns of adaption.- 16.The Chinese Presence In Cuba: Heroic Past, Uncertain Present, Open Future.- 17. The Making of New Chinese Immigrants in Canada.- 18. Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Diasporic Development: The Case of New Chinese Migrants in the United States.