First DATA

Answering the question "looking for what?", here are the first data.

1_ In general the site's objects are several Chinese shops, most of them are hairdessing salons and restaurants.
2_The site's subjects are all the Chinese people that work/live in this area.

3_The traditional Chinese medicine shop we are studying is at the end of Rotterdam China town. As said before
the synthetic China town of Rotterdam is more like a mixed eastern market that contains Chinese shops along with
many other shops from Eastern countries. Therefore this shop is surrounded by a coffeshop and a bar, both
having no relations to China.
4_The hairdresser is an inhabitant of this area for almost 15 years, his shop and house are at the very start of the
China town. He generally is located to this street.

5_The object's subjects are a Chinese couple that keeps the shop. The male (husband) is a doctor, the female (wife)
is cleaning up the shop and keeps it when her husband is not available at the front of the shop.
6_The subject's object is a normal ground floor shop at a rather good condition, fully equiped and possibly a house
connected to the shop.

7_due to lack of time this will be answered soon!
8_The traditional Chinese medicine shop is open since 1991, the doctor who owns it has studed medicine in China.
The shops sells medicine produced by the doctor and his wife or traditional more commercialized medicine,
imported from China. The examination rooms for accupuncture, massage etc. are equiped wuth traditional
Chinese furniture.
9_The subject lives in the Netherlands for 15 years, he works with three other girls at the shop, and probably
live together with them. He enjoys living in Rotterdam.

investigating

Second week at the Rotterdam China town, still looking for new clues..
Considering the fact that our China town is actually a street with a few Chinese shops, ivestigation progress through meeting Chinese people is not really very deep.
Most people are afraid to share their stories with foreigners, and more or less being foreigners themselves do not usually want to express a very private opinion on things going on in the Netherlands.
This fact is actually sad, because most of the times, when collecting information through a discussion, it is easier to have a more global sense of things being discussed..

Well in any case, we still have google!

Phase 2: combine the collected stories with published facts! on our way to China!