Claudine Salmon, Recent Research from France on the Chinese outside China (2006-2011) Claudine Salmon is Director of Research Emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris. The article below is a preprint version which will be published by the Chinese Heritage Centre of Singapore. Email European travellers visiting Southeast Asian countries have long been fascinated by the various Chinese communities they found on their way, the French being no exception, and...