ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the emerging cartographies of Chinese London and describes what happens when classic tropes of migrant bodies moving small-scale capital to create Chinatowns (Anderson, 1919) 2 are recalibrated, and large volumes of capital instead move migrant bodies and enterprise into a highly networked version of place making. It argues that a vastly different scale of Chinese influence such as the developments in London’s Albert Dock must shift the ways in which we think about cities, ethnicity and migration. It argues for a more dynamic, mobile and networked analysis of the ways in which ethnic migrant bodies and commerce make city space.
