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Qiaowu: Extra-Territorial Policies for the Overseas Chinese is a comprehensive analysis of the rival policies and practices of the Chinese Communist Party, Nationalist Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party governments of Taiwan concerning strategic cohorts of the Chinese diaspora.

The overseas Chinese (OC) form a vast network of powerful interest groups and important political actors capable of shaping the future of China from abroad by transmitting values back to their ancestral homeland (Tu 1991). While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) welcomes and actively seeks to foster relations with the OC in order to advance China's national interests, some cohorts may be hostile to the regime. In accordance with their distinct demographic and ethnic pro-files, the CCP's qiaowu (侨务, OC affairs) infrastructure serves to entice, co-opt, or isolate various OC groupings. This article summarises the policies for managing different subsets of OC over the past three dec-ades, and argues that through qiaowu, the CCP has successfully unified cooperative groups for China's benefit, while preventing discordant ones from eroding its grip on power. (JCCA/GIGA)