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Understanding Asia’s Overseas Chinese

In: BIG in Asia

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  • Michael Backman
  • Charlotte Butler

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The influence of ethnic Chinese businesspeople in Asia is now well known. Approximately 30 million ethnic Chinese live in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia today. They control companies and capital way in excess of that suggested by their numbers, to the point where doing business in Asia outside Korea and Japan usually means doing it with an overseas Chinese business partner. The name might be Thai, Indonesian or another local variant, but more often than not, the local will still be ethnically Chinese. Everyone knew the founder of Bangkok Bank as Chin Sophonpanich, for example, but Chin Pik Chin was his original, Chinese name.

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  • Michael Backman & Charlotte Butler, 2003. "Understanding Asia’s Overseas Chinese," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: BIG in Asia, chapter 0, pages 24-35, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-1448-4_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403914484_3
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