One topic of growing interest to me is the role that China — PRC, Taiwan, diaspora, etc. etc. — is playing in the Pacific today. There are many reasons for this: PRC-based companies are growing increasingly active in Papua New Guinea’s mineral industry (which I study), and I’m married to a China scholar and so China/Pacific overlap is a no-brainer as an area for me to be interested in. So I am interested in — and thought you might be interested in — this new open access paper with four chapters by different scholars, entitled “Chinese in the Pacific: where to now?”:http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/occasional_papers/index.php?issue=01 published by the newly-formed “Center for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora”:http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/ at the Australian National University. This is the second post in a row where I’ve shilled for ANU, I know, but there is a Savage Minds connections — they credit Savage Minds for hosting an “earlier version”:/2005/12/16/chinese-in-the-pacific-a-bibliography/ of “their expanded bibliography of Chinese in the Pacific”:http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/occasional_papers/cscsd_op1_8_bibliography.pdf (PDF link). Check it out.