China and the Overseas Chinese

Originally published in 1972, this is a detailed examination of the policy of the People's Republic of China towards the overseas Chinese - those people of Chinese origin living outside China, mostly in South-East Asia. The overseas Chinese have often been regarded as a kind of fifth column used by the Chinese Communist Party to stir up revolution in their home countries. Dr Fitzgerald convincingly demonstrates the falseness of this view and traces the development of the CCP from 1949 through to the Cultural Revolution.Fitzgerald, Stephen is the author of 'China and the Overseas Chinese', published 1980 under ISBN 9780521298100 and ISBN 0521298105.