From battlers to transnational ethnic entrepreneurs?: Immigrants from the People's Republic of China in Australia

Chinese Ethnic Business: Global and Local Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 120-131

  Ip, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 84896153695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203966914     Document Type: Chapter

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