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| | East Asia Analytical Unit - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
 | | Even today, ethnic Chinese may differentiate among themselves according to dialect, sub-dialect, clan and family, all of which are linked to their place of ancestral origin in China, as well as by country of birth, or of current residence, outside China. |
 | | Despite their size, the major ethnic Chinese enterprises in the region remain, for the most part, entrepreneurial and agile, with the ultimate head, no matter how large the enterprise, staying close to the market, and remaining sensitive to shifts in market conditions. |
 | | In this manner, the ethnic Chinese business community of East Asia appears to have taken on a role akin to that of the Japanese in the 1970s and early 1980s, as underwriters of the earlier stages of the region's economic transformation. |
| www.dfat.gov.au /publications/catalogue/overseas_chinese_business.html (4142 words) |
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