In a book about the Chinese in New York's Queens district, Chen Hsiang-shui, an associate professor at Tsing Hua University, notes that in traditional overseas Chinese communities, RCAs are a very important means of accumulating capital.
清華大學副教授陳祥水在一本有關紐約皇后區華人的著作中指出，傳統海外華人社區中，合會是很重要的資本累積方式。