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"This book presents the results of a ten-year sociological study of migrants from the Chinese city of Wenzhou who settled in Paris. It shows the clear change that the Wenzhouers of Paris underwent during the study period in the areas of forms of production, places of residence, organizational forms, communication and relationships between the generations, as well as the clear differences between the former and the current sphere of activity of the Wenzhouer. From the perspective of social spaces, the study analyzes the spatial structure of social positions of the Wenzhouers of Paris. She looks at spaces in France, China and in the community as well as the importance and value of these structures for social integration processes"--

The Chinese diaspora has been growing since the second half of the nineteenth century. In France, the Chinese immigration from the region of the Wenzhou has intensified since the 1980s. This sub-group of the Chinese diaspora has since rapidly expanded its economic activities. The objective of this thesis is to study the economic, social and spatial organization of Wenzhou migrants in France, manly in the Paris region, and to analyze the economic and social relations that they maintain with China in general and with their region of origin in particular. The central hypothesis of the thesis is that the economic "model of Wenzhou" area, as identified and analyzed by the Chinese scholars, and the development of Chinese entrepreneurship in France are closely linked in particular through "Import"of this model in France. The results of our thesis reveal the existence of an original transnational economy connecting France and China, that was supported by the Wenzhou diaspora and that produced a form of "migratory transfer" in each of the two countries. More broadly, the thesis helps to show how the Chinese diaspora in France contributed to the economic development of China, but also how it benefitted from measures included in China's new policy initiated in the early 2000s to consolidate itself. [La version 1 de cette thèse est une version corrigée sur la forme (fautes de frappe, mise en page, etc.) par l'auteur, après le dépôt légal numérique (consultable en version 2).] ; La diaspora chinoise a pris de l'ampleur depuis la deuxième moitié du XIXème siècle. En France, la migration de Chinois originaires de la région de Wenzhou, s'est intensifiée depuis les années 1980. Ce sous-groupe de la diaspora chinoise a dès lors rapidement développé ses activités économiques. L'objectif cette thèse consiste à étudier l'organisation économique, sociale et spatiale des migrants de Wenzhou en France, principalement dans la région parisienne, et d'analyser les rapports économiques et sociaux que ceux-ci entretiennent avec la Chine en général et avec leur région d'origine en particulier. L'hypothèse centrale de la thèse est que le « Modèle de Wenzhou » en Chine, tel qu'il est identifié et analysé par les universitaires chinois, et le développement de l'entrepreneuriat chinois issu de Wenzhou en France sont étroitement liés. Pour ce faire, nous interrogerons notamment l'idée d'une « importation » de ce modèle en France. Les résultats de cette thèse permettent de révéler l'existence d'une économie transnationale originale, reliant la France et la Chine, qui a été soutenue par la diaspora Wenzhou et a produit une forme de « transfert migratoire » dans chacun des deux pays. Plus largement, la thèse permet de montrer de quelle manière la diaspora chinoise en France a contribué au développement économique de la Chine et comment elle a pu bénéficier de la nouvelle politique de la Chine initiée au début des années 2000 pour se consolider. [La version 1 de cette thèse est une version corrigée sur la forme (fautes de frappe, mise en page, etc.) par l'auteur, après le dépôt légal numérique (consultable en version 2).]

The author describes the transformation of the economic life in Wenzhou county and city in Zhejiang province, peasant households engaged in various family industrial enterprises, family workshops, hired labour employed by private enterprises, joint stock companies etc. She notes that the scale of family industry is not big, its technical level is not high and the materials used are of low quality. The crisis is briefly discussed. (DÜI-Sen)

"Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development. This book studies the institutional change and economic development in Wenzhou since China's reform and opening-up. It concludes that the most important characteristic of Wenzhou model is that the city is the first to promote industrialization and urbanization by privatization and marketization in Zhejiang. As privatization and marketization reflect reform, and industrialization and urbanization represent development, Wenzhou model promotes development through economic reform. In the early years of the reform and opening-up, the people of Wenzhou boldly faced the constraints of traditional planned economy, bravely explored the market-oriented reform and opened up a new path to regional economic development. This book also contains the stories of the people of Wenzhou"--Publisher's website

From "superstition" to "people's customs" : an ethnographic discovery of key questions in Wenzhou -- The Wenzhou model of rural development in China -- Popular religiosity : deities, spirit mediums, ancestors, ghosts, and Fengshui -- Daoism : ancient gods, boisterous rituals, and hearthside priests -- Buddhist religiosity : the wheel of life, death, and rebirth -- Sprouts of religious civil society : temples, localities, and communities -- The rebirth of the lineage : creative unfolding and multiplicity of forms -- Of mothers, goddesses, and bodhisattvas : patriarchal structures and women's religious agency -- Broadening and pluralizing the modern category of "civil society" : a friendly quarrel with Durkheim -- What's missing in the Wenzhou model? The "ritual economy" and "wasting of wealth".

This paper explores why Zhejiangcun's Wenzhou migrants and Wangjing's Chaoxianzu migrants were able to maintain and actively restructure their settlements in Beijing while Beijing's other migrant settlements either disappeared or were forced out from their original locations. Highlighting the role of the Wenzhou model in Zhejiangcun and that of the transnational ethnic ties in Wangjing, this research illustrates how certain rural migrants emerged as a new social group by utilizing their cultural capital based on native-place and ethnic ties and newly found economic power. The present study examines the urban space of Zhejiangcun and Wangjing where alternative sources of economic power and social networks were created and utilized and therefore offers a unique perspective by locating a specifically-founded ethnographic analysis within the general debate on the restructuring of post-reform urban space. (J Contemp China/GIGA)