title: Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia
author: Murray Weidenbaum
description: Who will profit when (and if) mainland China goes capitalist in the next century? Not American or European companies, despite their strong desire to invest here. Most of the rewards will flow to expatriate Chinese who fled from Communism in 1949. The authors contribute to the pioneering work of Thomas Sowell's <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=046504588X/${0}">Migrations and Cultures</a> and Joel Kotkin's <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0679752994/${0}">Tribes</a> in showing how ethnic ties fuel economic prosperity.
zlib_text: Erection
  of
  Bamboo
  Scaffolds
  TECHNICAL REPORT NO.24
  K F Chung and Y C Siu
  
                               
   
  INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN 
   
  The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) is an intergovernmental organization established in 1997 by Treaty.  
  As of January 2003, 21 countries (Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, 
  Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Peru, The Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, 
  Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam) have become INBAR’s member countries.  INBAR’s mission is to improve the well being 
  of producers and users of bamboo and rattan within the context of a sustainable resource base by consolidating, coordinating and 
  supporting strategic as well as adaptive research and development.  INBAR program link partners from the technologies that 
  directly improve the well being of people in developing and developed countries. 
   
  INBAR publishes 