Exhibit collection 13
ETHNIC STUDIES LIBRARY
Brief description of library with highlights of Chinese Overseas collection 16
Exhibit collection 17
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIA LIBRARY
Brief description of library with highlights of Chinese Overseas collection 29
Exhibit collection 30
Bibliographies.32
Acknowledgements 36
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INTRODUCTION
THIS HISTORIC EXHIBIT ON CHINESE OVERSEAS is the result of the collaboration of five libraries:
The Bancroft Library, the Center for Chinese Studies Library, the East Asian Library, the Ethnic Studies Library, and
the South/Southeast Asia Library. It displays the rich and rare Chinese Overseas resources at the libraries of the
University of California at Berkeley. The Ethnic Studies Library contains one of the most comprehensive Asian
American Studies Collections in the United States, including materials on the cultural, political, and socio-economic
life of Asian Americans and the largest archival collection on Chinese Americans in the world. These resources
document and reveal the challenges and the triumphs of Chinese Overseas as well as their contributions to their
adopted and host countries and to their homeland. These unique research materials have proven invaluable for the
research and teaching needs of faculty, students and scholars on the Berkeley campus and beyond. They also tell
fascinating stories.
The Chinese have a long history of migration overseas. According to the Overseas Chinese Confederation, in May
2000 there were 34 million Chinese residing in 140 countries in the world. Asia has the largest Chinese Overseas
population (28 million). The Americas are second (3.5 million), Europe third (1.6 million), Oceania fourth
(571 thousand), and Africa fifth (137 thousand). Studies of this phenomenon and systematic comparisons of the
experiences of the Chinese Overseas have now reached a critical stage.

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