Researches On Transnational Activities Of Contemporary Overseas Chinese Communities

The transnational activities of overseas Chinese communities (OCCs) are the product of globalization, which are growing up with the evolution of globalization. The better distributions of capital, information, technology, culture and human resources are the core of the OCCs'transnational activities. To study the OCC's transnational activities in the perspective of globalization can help us to recognize further the existence, development and influence of the OCCs, which can be used as well by the PRC to speed up its gearing into the development of the international society. There appear lots of difficulties in the international society, which are in the very interest of every country and which can hardly be dealt with by any single sovereign state and any single international organization. For example, China's rapid development and emergence touches off national conflicts, cultural clashes, problems of environment protection, food security, distributions of natural resources and trade frictions in the international diplomatic relationship. All those may cause unrest and anxieties in the mainstream of the countries where many overseas Chinese stay. The OCCs can take an active part in and handle the problems mentioned above through their effects in the fields related and by taking the advantages of their shared cultural identities and kinship relations. It is of present significance to promote China's contribution to, and to enforce its influence and speech power upon the world. The systematic and theoretical studies on the OCC's transnational activities have obtained little and the achievements of the studies of the OCC's transnational activities are few in the perspective of international studies. This doctoral dissertation focuses its research question on the OCC's transnational activities as follows:By using their cultural and kinship connections, the OCCs, as a non-state actor or a non-government organization (NGO), can play a special role and cast much influence in many aspects which can hardly be touched or replaced by a sovereign power. Though the effect is not much at present, the potential of the OCC's transnational activities can be greatly explored in the international relationship in the future. The demand of globalization and development of the international society with the attraction of China's fast growing economy offers much more space for the activities of the OCCs, the increasing influence is of present importance in the developmental process of China's modernization and in the economy and cultural globalization. In the analyzing, the research question is explored mainly in five fields, i.e. the contents, the background and present conditions, the evolution, the operation mechanism, the range and influence of the OCC's transnational activities, the difficulties and suggested solutions to them. As its innovative insight, this dissertation takes the OCCs as a non-state actor, based upon which the author has carried out his exploration into this regard in a new research digamma and in the international perspective, and sets up an interactive model between the OCC's transnational activities and NGOs, states and international relationship. To construct an analytical system including the overseas Chinese→the OCCs→oversea Chinese societies→states→international relationship. All this offers a cognitive schema for a further study and has enriched the contents and approaches of the theoretical researches on the oversea Chinese.