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This article is an introduction to the entire issue. The seven papers which follow are brought together within the categories of psychocultural orientation, kin-oriented social organization, segmentary sociopolitical organization host culture environment, and foreign born generation. The social organization of overseas Chinese communities must be adaptive to the cultural environment of their host nations. Yet the resulting minority institutions have segmentary and kinship oriented patterns that bear similarities from country to country and retain an affinity with Chinese tradition. The alien host culture also may determine the course of assimilation or separation of overseas Chinese. The bicultural conflicts facing young overseas Chinese, as well as the social organization of their communities, show a psychological core of Chinese ethnicity, consisting of the attributes of continuity, inclusiveness, authority, and asexuality.