Editing Overseas Chinese (section)

===Commercial success===
{{Main|Bamboo network}}

Chinese emigrants are estimated to control US$2 trillion in liquid assets and have considerable amounts of wealth to stimulate economic power in [[Economy of China|China]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bartlett|first=David|title=The Political Economy of Dual Transformations: Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary|url=https://archive.org/details/politicaleconomy0000bart|url-access=registration|year=1997|publisher=University of Michigan Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/politicaleconomy0000bart/page/280 280]|isbn=9780472107940}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Fukuda|first=Kazuo John|title=Japan and China: The Meeting of Asia's Economic Giants|year=1998|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-7890-0417-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_e_HadcM_AC&pg=PA103|access-date=2 June 2020|archive-date=11 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411212924/https://books.google.com/books?id=M_e_HadcM_AC&pg=PA103|url-status=live}}</ref> The Chinese business community of Southeast Asia, known as the [[bamboo network]], has a prominent role in the region's private sectors.<ref name="Weidenbaum">{{cite book|author=Murray L Weidenbaum|title=The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia|url=https://archive.org/details/bamboonetworkhow00weid|url-access=registration|date=1996|publisher=Martin Kessler Books, Free Press|isbn=978-0-684-82289-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bamboonetworkhow00weid/page/4 4]–5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbusinesslive.com/research/article/648273/the-worlds-successful-diasporas/|title=The world's successful diasporas|website=Worldbusinesslive.com|access-date=18 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401110233/http://www.worldbusinesslive.com/research/article/648273/the-worlds-successful-diasporas/|archive-date=1 April 2008}}</ref>
In Europe, North America and Oceania, occupations are diverse and impossible to generalize; ranging from catering to significant ranks in [[medicine]], [[the arts]] and [[academia]].

Overseas Chinese often send [[remittance]]s back home to family members to help better them financially and socioeconomically. China ranks second after India of top remittance-receiving countries in 2018 with over US$67 billion sent.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 December 2018 |title=India to retain top position in remittances with $80 billion: World Bank |newspaper=[[The Economic Times]] |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/forex-and-remittance/india-to-retain-top-position-in-remittances-with-80-billion-world-bank/articleshow/66998062.cms |access-date=8 December 2018 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415054818/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/forex-and-remittance/india-to-retain-top-position-in-remittances-with-80-billion-world-bank/articleshow/66998062.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>