Beyond Ethnic Enclaves: Location Strategies of Chinese Producer Service Firms in Los AngelesFootnote

* This article was prepared as part of a research project supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant no. NSF/SBR-9303692), the MacArthur Peace and International Cooperation Program, and the Department of Geography, University of Minnesota. I would like to thank Eric Sheppard at the University of Minnesota and anonymous reviewers for their input.

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