Alternative Names
Overseas Chinese in Hungary, lü Xiong huaren.
Location
Hungarian cities, towns, and villages, interspersed among Hungarians and other ethnic groups.
History
Chinese in Hungary are recent entrepreneurial migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Starting in 1987, residents of northern China began to take advantage of the simplified procedure of obtaining private passports adopted by the PRC government in the previous year to engage in “shuttle trade” between China and the Soviet Far East and Siberia. Many of the first shuttle traders were moonlighting Chinese contract laborers, increasing numbers of whom had been invited to Russia on contracts during the same period. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and especially after the signing in 1992 of a Sino-Russian treaty waiving the visa requirement for overland group tourism in the bordering provinces, crossing the border became even easier (Khodakov, 1999).
An informal “shuttle trade” had been a feature of...
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Nyíri, P. (2005). Chinese in Hungary. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_68
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