Échec migratoire d’un milliardaire chinois en Europe : une courte fenêtre d’opportunité politico-économique en Chine
This paper relates some parts of Li’s life. As a former prawns’ breeder in Shanghai suburbs, Li became a billionaire or a multimillionaire and tried to settle down in France among other places. Unsuccessful, he came back to China, protected by his relationships. Observations and interviews from 1997...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Moussons |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/3390 |
| Summary: | This paper relates some parts of Li’s life. As a former prawns’ breeder in Shanghai suburbs, Li became a billionaire or a multimillionaire and tried to settle down in France among other places. Unsuccessful, he came back to China, protected by his relationships. Observations and interviews from 1997 to 2002, in Paris, Marseille, Monaco, Peking, Hong Kong and Boston allow recounting his story that is put in the Chinese socio-economical context of the end of the 90s and beginning of 2000. This contextual approach makes possible the hypothesis of a temporary national Chinese context, favorable to the expatriation and investments abroad of many Chinese people like Li, who could come from a very poor background. The literature has recorded the success of many overseas Chinese. Li was not one of these ; he did not succeed in prospering outside China and back home he had to submit himself to the Chinese reform benefiting simultaneously from protective networks. |
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| ISSN: | 1620-3224 2262-8363 |