Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese
have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very
little research has been done about the initial migrants in the
nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and
Russia in the twentieth century before the collapse of the
'socialist' regimes or about the great wave of Chinese migration to
Eastern Europe and Russia which occurred after 1989.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in
Russia and Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to the
present day. Particularly important is the movement of
entrepreneurs in the early 1990s, who took advantage of unmet
demand, inadequate retail networks and largely unregulated markets
to become suppliers of cheap consumer goods to low-income Eastern
Europeans. In some villages, Chinese merchants now occupy a
position not unlike that of Jewish shopkeepers before the Second
World War. Although their interactions with local society are
numerous, the degree of social integration and acceptance is often
low. At the same time, they maintain close economic, social, and
political ties to China.
Empirical in focus, and full of rich ethnographic data, Pal
Nyiri has produced a book that will be of great interest to
students and scholars of Chinese studies, international migration,
diaspora and transnationalism.
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