Chinese ethnic business : global and local perspectives / edited by Eric Fong and Chiu Luk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fong, Eric, 1960-

Luk, Chiu-ming

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

Chinese worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority business enterprises.

Chinese--Foreign countries--Economic conditions.

Chinese.

Transnationalism.

Entrepreneurship--Social aspects.

Entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

xvi, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, Australia and Canada. Focusing on the main themes of economic globalization and Chinese community development, transnational linkages, local urban structures, homogenization and place attachment, the team of internationally known contributors place the subject of Chinese ethnic business in the bigger picture of ethnic businesses and globalization.Including excellent methodology such as ethnographic studies, historical analysis, geographic studies and statistical analysis, this volume makes an important contribution to the field of ethnic businesses.

Contents:

The Chinese language media and the ethnic enclave economy in the United States / Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai

Globally connected and locally embedded financial institutions: analyzing the ethnic Chinese banking sector / Wei Li and Gary Dymski

The new Chinese business sector in Toronto: a spatial and structural anatomy of medium and large-sized firms / Lucia Lo and Shuguang Wang

Globalization, transnationalism, and Chinese transnationalism / Ivan Light

Business social networks and immigrant entrepreneurs from China / Janet W. Salaff, Arent Greve, and Siu-lun Wong

From battlers to transnational ethnic entrepreneurs?: immigrants from the People's Republic of China in Australia / David Ip

The cemetery of Huang Xuliang: transnationalism and the Chinese overseas in the early twentieth century / Michael A. Szonyi

Chinese ethnic economies within the city context / Eric Fong and Linda Lee

Business owners and workers: class locations of Chinese in Canada / Peter Sj. Li

The global-local nexus and ethnic business location / Chiu Luk

Going to malls, being Chinese?: ethnic identities among Chinese youths in Toronto's ethnic economy / Emi Ooka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

0415397189

9780415397186

0203966910

9780203966914

OCLC:

65064685

Publisher Number:

9780415397186 (hbk. : alk. paper)

9780203966914 (ebk.)

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