"Primitive" Re-accumulation of Capital in China: Reverse Investment from Overseas Chinese in Thailan

Moreover, in the context of the world system paradigm, the bamboo network represents the process of capital flow that originates in the semiperipheral and peripheral areas and in the end, reaches the core country for the specific purpose of capital accumulation and economic development. [...] The next section will provide an account of the Open Door policy, the Beijing’s treatment of the overseas Chinese during the Communist regime, and the realization of the overseas Chinese as a significant source of capital by the Chinese Communist Party in order to comprehensively understand the critical context of the process of reverse investment. [...] Critical Context Demography of the Chinese population in Thailand Because this research paper argue that the Chinese population in Thailand is part of the larger picture in the accumulation of capital in the early stage of China’s economic reform, it is important that a brief account of the Chinese in Thailand and a definition of the term, overseas Chinese, be provided before the analysis of the B. [...] The next section will thoroughly examine the Beijing’s treatment of the overseas Chinese under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the re-discovery of the Chinese abroad as the source of capital, which facilitated further growth and development of the Chinese economy in the early reform period. [...] Thus, it is important to examine the discourse of the overseas Chinese taken by the Chinese government because the Chinese government previously lost its connection with the overseas Chinese population during the period of self-imposed isolation after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), during the Cultural Revolution, and the Cold War.