The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia

Download or read book The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia written by W.E. Willmott and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1970-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This field study of organized Chinese life in Cambodia, past and present, takes its place in the growing sociological literature on the overseas Chinese and, in a sense, transcends it. For it relates its conclusions on the evolution the structure of the Cambodian Chinese community to the evidence from other overseas Chinese communities, and moves on to a comparison between overseas Chinese social organization and the organization of cities in China. Cambodia, the overseas Chinese, and traditional China all stand illuminated.