Exchanging ideas: Universiti Malaya’s Chinese Studies Department adjunct professor Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy (left) sharing a light moment with Wong (centre) and Leow at the conference.
KUALA LUMPUR: Overseas Chinese communities should be recognised as distinct from the Chinese in China, not merely as extensions of the motherland, said Assoc Prof Dr Rachel Leow of Cambridge University.
She said ethnic Chinese around the world have, over generations, developed their own unique identities shaped by the societies they live in.
