The purpose of this article is to make a few tentative comments on current sociological and socio-historical findings related to the Chinese minority position in South-East Asia. Since the achievement of independence by all South-East Asian nations in the decade of 1950, which coincided with the emergence of a powerful Chinese Communist State on the mainland of Asia and the withdrawal of the Chinese Nationalist government to Taiwan, scholars have discovered the existence of a Third China. It is all those Chinese minorities which, long before colonial times, have settled in Nanyang, the area of Southern Seas, from China’s border states to New Guinea and the remote Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. Twelve or thirteen million ethnic Chinese, neither Communists as on the mainland nor Nationalists as in Taiwan, share a common way of life distinct from the indigenous cultures of host nations form an inconsiderable proportion of the total population of the region of roughly 230 million, in proportions varying from country to country. [Download]