Chinese American Attitudes toward Homeland Government and Politics: A Comparison among Immigrants from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

The Chinese Diaspora in the United States has a long history of involvement in homeland political development and change. Much of the prior research, however, has been historical in focus and qualitative in methodological orientation and does not engage quantitative approaches in systematically analyzing the relationships between divergent origins and political attitudes of the contemporary population. This study uses primary data collected from a national telephone survey of U.S. residents of Chinese descent originated from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in fall 2007 to explore the role of transnational ties in structuring immigrant pinions on homeland government and politics.