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Says Sowell: 'It is all too common in famine-stricken countries for food to be rotting on the docks in the port cities while people are dying of hunger in the interior-dying from a lack of distribution of food rather than lack of food per se. 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.Even those middlemen who bring producers and consumers together- for example the entrepreneurs who buy, and sell at a profit, the produce and crafts of the locals-are likely to be hated for getting rich while producing nothing. 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.ĪB - Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. N2 - Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe.

T2 - a middleman minority in a transnational era T1 - Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

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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.', At the same time, they maintain close economic, social, and political ties to China. Although their interactions with local society are numerous, the degree of social integration and acceptance is often low. In some villages, Chinese merchants now occupy a position not unlike that of Jewish shopkeepers before the Second World War. 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. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in Russia and Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day. 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. At the same time, they maintain close economic, social, and political ties to China.Įmpirical 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.Ībstract = 'Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe.

Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe.