Connections between businesses operated by the Overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia
This article is about the Overseas Chinese business network. For the Cold War term, see Bamboo Curtain. For the term about the employment advancement barriers that East Asians face in the Western world, see Bamboo ceiling.
The Bamboo network (simplified Chinese: 竹网; traditional Chinese: 竹網; pinyin: zhú wǎng) or the Chinese Commonwealth (simplified Chinese: 中文联邦; traditional Chinese: 中文聯邦; pinyin: Zhōngwén liánbāng) is a term used to conceptualize connections between businesses operated by the Overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia.[1][2] The Overseas Chinese business networks constitute the single most dominant private business groups outside of East Asia.[3] It links the Overseas Chinese business community of Southeast Asia, namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Myanmar with the economies of Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan).[4] The Overseas Chinese play a pivotal role in Southeast Asia's business sector as they dominate Southeast Asia's economy today and form the economic elite across all the major Southeast Asian countries.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The Chinese have been an economically powerful and prosperous minority for centuries and today exert a powerful economic influence throughout the region.[12][13][14][15] Overseas Chinese wield tremendous economic clout over their indigenous Southeast Asian majority counterparts and play a critical role in maintaining the regions aggregate economic vitality and prosperity.[16][17][18][19] Since the turn of the 21st century, postcolonial Southeast Asia has now become an important pillar of the Overseas Chinese economy as the bamboo network represents an important symbol of adumbrating itself as an extended international economic outpost of Greater China.[20][15]
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^Cheung, Gordon C. K.; Gomez, Edmund Terence (Spring 2012). "Hong Kong's Diaspora, Networks, and Family Business in the United Kingdom: A History of the Chinese "Food Chain" and the Case of W. Wing Yip Group". China Review. 12 (1). Chinese University Press: 48. ISSN1680-2012. JSTOR23462317. Chinese firms in Asian economies outside mainland China have been so prominent that Kao coined the concept of "Chinese Commonwealth" to describe the business networks of this diaspora.
^Richter, Frank-Jürgen (1999). Business Networks in Asia: Promises, Doubts, and Perspectives. Praeger. p. 152. ISBN978-1567203028.
^Richter, Frank-Jurgen (2002). Redesigning Asian Business: In the Aftermath of Crisis. Quorum Books. p. 83. ISBN978-1567205251.
^Landa, Janet Tai (2016). Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia: Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict. Springer. pp. 3–9. ISBN978-3642540189.
^Ahlstrom, David; Bruton, Garry (2009). International Management: Strategy and Culture in the Emerging World. Southwestern College Publishing (published March 3, 2009). p. 172. ISBN978-0324406313.
^Suryadinata, Leo (2017). The Rise of China and the Chinese Overseas: A Study of Beijing's Changing Policy in Southeast Asia and Beyond. Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute (published January 25, 2017). p. 18. ISBN978-9814762649.
^Safarian, A.E.; Dobson, Wendy (1997). The People Link: Human Resource Linkages Across The Pacific. University of Toronto Press. ISBN978-0802042996.
^Folk, Brian C.; Jomo, K. S. (2003). Ethnic Business: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia (1st ed.). Routledge (published September 1, 2003). pp. 26–29. ISBN978-0415310116.
^Unger, Danny (1998). Building Social Capital in Thailand: Fibers, Finance and Infrastructure. Cambridge University Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN978-0521639316.
^Slezkine, Yuri (2004). The Jewish Century. Princeton University Press. p. 33.