China and the Overseas Chinese: A Study of Peking's Changing Policy: 1949-1970Originally 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