Abstract
There are about twenty million Chinese living outside of China, compared with about nine hundred million living on the mainland and about seventeen million on the Island of Taiwan. Of these twenty million, about fifteen million are distributed throughout the countries of Southeast Asia and the remainder are scattered over the rest of the world.
By nature men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius, Analects, bk. xvii. c. ii.
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Tan, ES. (1981). Culture-Bound Syndromes among Overseas Chinese. In: Kleinman, A., Lin, TY. (eds) Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4986-2_19
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