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After the Deng Xiaoping reforms, the attitude of the PRC toward overseas Chinese changed dramatically. Rather than being seen with suspicion, they were seen as people which could aid PRC development via their skills and capital. During the 1980s, the PRC actively attempted to court the support of overseas Chinese by, among other things, returning properties that were confiscated after the 1949 revolution. More recently, PRC policy has attempted to maintain the support of recently emigrated Chinese, who consist largely of Chinese seeking graduate education in the West.

Overseas Chinese have sometimes played an important role in Chinese politics. Most of the funding for the Chinese revolution of 1911 came from overseas Chinese, and many of those Chinese are overseas for political reasons.

5. Ibid.

6. Leo Suryadinata, China and the ASEAN States: The Ethnic Chinese Dimension (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1985), 1.

7. Ibid., 2.

8. Tuan Li Seng, The History of the Chinese Temples and Monasteries in Thailand (Bangkok: Song Siam, March 2000), 11.

9. Samuel Ling, “Chinese, Ethnic Chinese, and World Evangelization,” Available at http://www.aaministry.org/cac/articles/chinese.txt

10. “Definition of Assimilation,” Oxford English Dictionary, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 27th edition, 1988), 128.

11. “Definition of Assimilation,” Brainy Dictionary Online. Available from http://www.brainydictionary.com/words/as/assimilation132952.html

12. “Definition of Assimilation.” Available from www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

13. Sara E. Simons, “Social Assimilation,” American Journal of Sociology, VI, 791.

14. Henri Bunle, “Population Studies,” Cultural Assimilation of Immigrants: Supplement 3, (March 1950), 6.

15. T. Kuhlman, “Forced Migration: An Economist’s Perspective.” http:// www.feweb.uv.n1/publications (accessed May 26, 2006).

16. “Definition of Integration.” http://www.adversity.net/Terms_Definitions/TERMS/Integration.htm

17. G. William Skinner, Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1957).

18. Ibid., 5.

19. Ibid.