The ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia and China / Wong Kan Seng -- The Southeast Asian Chinese and the development of China / Wang Gungwu -- Economic systems of the Southeast Asian Chinese / Jamie Mackie -- The ethnic Chinese and ersatz capitalism in Southeast Asia / Yoshihara Kunio -- The economic role of the Indonesian Chinese / Christianto Wibisono -- The entrepreneurial propensity of Singaporean graduates /Chew Soon Beng and Azlan bin Ghazali -- Ch'ing China and the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 1906-1911 / Yen Ching-hwang -- The founding of the PRC and the economic concerns of Singapore Chinese entrepreneurs / Huang Jianli -- China's economic modernization and the ethnic Chinese in ASEAN / Leo Suryadinata -- The ethnic Chinese, the Philippine economy, and China / Teresa Chong Carino -- Recent developments in the political economy of China-Malaysia relations / Ho Khai Leong --Singapore's investment in China / Yong Pow Ang