Abstract
The post-cold war period marked the end of ideological affection between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and East Central Europe (ECE). While the latter chose parliamentary democracy and market economy, the former reemphasized its Marxist foundations while seeking to reinvent its economy. The economic reforms in China fostered strong economic growth, revived entrepreneurial spirit, and generated domestic migration of peasants and urbanites searching for jobs or new business opportunities. Some of these migrants, either unsatisfied with the business environment in the PRC or wealthy enough to venture beyond China, sought opportunities abroad. The ECE economies– which included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia– were hungry for investment and so granted entry to Chinese prospective investors and business individuals. Ironically, 1989 marked the end of the camaraderie between the PRC and ECE and the beginning of the fraternity between the peoples of China and East Central Europe. Ten years after the Chinese began their ECE odyssey, the topic of Chinese migration to the former communist countries remains largely underresearched. Only the Chinese community in Hungary has received sufficient academic attention.1 The scarcity of research on Chinese migration to ECE is
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