Economic Rationality, Ethnic Identity, and the Geographies of Consumption

GeoJournal Library

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 79-101

  Lo, Lucia ^a   Wang, Lu ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese Business; Chinese Immigrant; Ethnic Identity; Grocery Shopping; Travel Agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042197549     PISSN: 09245499     EISSN: 22150072     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2975-9_6     Document Type: Chapter

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