Between Equality and Prejudice: Chinese Planning on the Postwar Status of the Chinese Diaspora, 1940–9

China's ruling Nationalist government saw the Second World War as an opportunity to shape postwar world in favour. However, existing studies have often focused on plans territorial arrangements East Asia. This article examines how China imagined and attempted improve status of Chinese diaspora host countries. During war, envisaged removal discriminatory treatment against planned advocate racial equality. this equality was intended be parity with white people Japanese rather than other Asians. Some officials even claimed that Southeast Asia should receive preferential treatment, which resonated their perceptions were superior As atrocities migrants after war mounted, forced concentrate saving lives assets. At Asian Relations Conference, held India March–April 1947, delegates defended sceptical nations. Although conference reached agreement treating foreign each country fairly, still found itself a precarious position.