00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004679 20221017094201 0010-0520004679 9780415446860 eng 305.895'1047 305.895'1047 PAL c Pal, Nyiri Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia : A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era / Nyiri Pal New York : Routledge, 2007 xvi, 173 p.; 25 cm ; 25 cm Indeks : p. 149 - 166 p. 149 - 166 This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia from the nineteenth century to the present day. Particularly important is the movement of entrepreneurs in the early 1990s, who took advantage of unment 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. Their interactions with local society are numerous, the degre of social integration and acceptance is often low. They maintain close economic, social and political ties to China. ---Empirical in focus, and full of rich etnographic data, the author, Nyiri Pal has produced a book that will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, international migration, diaspora and transnasionalism. Chinese - Russia - History; Chinese - Europe, Eastern - History Chinese - Soviet Union - History Emigration and immigration - Economics aspects 221017################|##########|#eng## 10652/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10653/MKRI-P/XI-2008