The discourse on transnationalism has contributed greatly to the understanding of overseas Chinese communities. In the past few years, scholars of Asian and Asian-American studies have done ground-breaking work in rejecting assimilationist theories relating to the collective identity and migration patterns of overseas Chinese communities, and have produced a wealth of scholarship which has elevated the study of overseas Chinese into a more mature and independent field of academic enquiry. The book under review is one such valuable contribution. It is unique in two significant ways. First, many of the contributing scholars are specialists in geography, who provide new perspectives and information in an area traditionally dominated by historians, sociologists and literary critics. Second, it covers overseas Chinese across the world — from Southeast Asia, Oceania, North and Latin America, to Europe — and focuses on the post-1960 era. The book also includes discussions on the Chinese population in Hong Kong and Taiwan; scholarship on the Chinese communities in these two areas had long been marginalized and relegated to area studies. The current surge of interest in transnationalism has finally placed Chinese Diaspora as an important theme in global studies