ABSTRACT
Chinese migrants have long dispersed all over the world. The ethnic Chinese have often been tossed up by the turbulent situation in international politics and the volatility of national regimes. As “overseas Chinese” they are always destined to be torn between different courses of action, such as whether to leave their home countries and whether to re-migrate to a third country from the land they have once settled in because of sociopolitical changes they encounter in those countries. Their sensitivity toward these changes can be seen during the Chinese Civil War in the post-Second World War era that prompted many to leave China, and the height of the VietnamWar in the 1970s that forced many ethnic Chinese to leave the war-torn land for the USA, France or other countries. And more recently, there was an exodus on the eve of the return of Hong Kong in 1997, that is, many Chinese living in Hong Kong who felt uncertain about its political and economic future moved on to such Western countries as Canada and the United Kingdom.
