Chinese Ethnic Business

University of Toronto, Canada

• 1. Introduction: Chinese Ethnic Business and Globalisation Part 1: Economic Globalization, and Community Development and Chinese Ethnic Businesses 2. The Chinese Language Media and the Ethnic Enclave Economy in the United States 3. Globally Connected and Locally Embedded Financial Institutions: Analyzing the Ethnic Chinese Banking Sector 4. The New Chinese Business Sector in Toronto: A Spatial and Structural Anatomy of Medium and Large-Sized Firms Part 2: Transnational Linkages and Chinese Ethnic Businesses 5. Globalization, Transnationalism, and Chinese Transnationalism 6. Business Social Networks and Immigrant Entrepreneurs from China 7. From Batlers to Transnational Ethnic Entrepreneurs?: Immigrants from the People's Republic of China in Australia 8. The Cemetery of Huang Xuliang: Transnationalism and the Chinese Overseas in the Early Twentieth Century Part 3: Chinese Businesses, Local Urban Structures and Homogenization 9. Chinese Ethnic Economies with the City Context 10. Business Owners and Workers: Class Locations of Chinese in Canada Part 4: Homogenization: Place Attachment and Chinese Businesses 11. The Global-Local Nexus and Ethnic Business Location 12. Going to Malls, Being Chinese?: Ethnic Identities among Chinese Youths in Toronto's Ethnic Economy 13. Conclusion

'This book is a worthy and scholarly contribution to the study of the ethnic Chinese diaspora and will be of help to sociologists, development specialists, urban studies specialists and policy makers in several fields.' - Gordon Redding, The China Journal, No 58, July 2007