Recent trends of ethnic Chinese retailing in metropolitan Toronto

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-66

  Wang, Shuguang ^a   Hii, Rebecca ^a   Zhong, Jason ^b   Du, Paul ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business Geography; Canada; Chinese Immigrants; Ethnic Economy; Ethnic Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887477107     PISSN: 19479654     EISSN: 19479662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jagr.2013010104     Document Type: Article

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