Chinatown and Transnationalism: Ethnic Chinese in Europe and Southeast Asia. By Gregor Benton and Edmund Terence Gomez. [Canberra: Australian National University, 2001. 40 pp. ISBN 0-909524-44-0.]

This occasional paper is a revised version of a paper presented in February 2000 at a symposium on “The Chinese transnational communities” and the first result of a wider research project currently being developed by Gregor Benton and Edmund Terence Gomez. In this succinct comparative study, the authors analyse the topic of trans-nationalism within the Chinese communities of the UK and South-East Asia, focusing on two main aspects: business style and political consciousness.