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Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era

Edited by Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong

As we enter the 21st century it is clear that the economic growth China has enjoyed has been extraordinary. Although Western countries continue to dominate…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46218-1 (Routledge)

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Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era

By Pál Nyiri

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…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44686-0 (Routledge)

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Chinese Migrants and Internationalism

Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945

By Gregor Benton

The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41868-3 (Routledge)

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Chinese Ethnic Business

Global and Local Perspectives

Edited by Eric Fong, Chiu Luk

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…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39718-6 (Routledge)

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Chinese Transnational Networks

Edited by Chee-Beng Tan

The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39583-0 (Routledge)

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Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

By Kwok-bun Chan

Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36927-5 (Routledge)

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Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

By Kwok-bun Chan

Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create.…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36929-9 (Routledge)

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Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949

Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates

By Hung-yok Ip

This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35165-2 (Routledge)

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Diasporic Chinese Ventures

The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu

Edited by Gregor Benton, Hong Liu

This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33142-5 (Routledge)

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Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity

Edited by Terence Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32527-1 (Routledge)

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Edited by Gregor Benton, Flemming Christiansen, Terence Gomez and Delia Davin, all at Cardiff University, UK, Frank N. Pieke, The University of Oxford Institute for Chinese Studies, UK

Chinese Worlds publishes high-quality scholarship, research monographs, and source collections on Chinese history and society. 'Worlds' signals the diversity of China, the cycles of unity and division through which China's modern history has passed, and recent research trends toward regional studies and local issues. It also signals that Chineseness is not contained within borders - ethnic migrant communities overseas are also 'Chinese worlds.'