A fundamental generalization on migration, proposed over a century ago by Ernest George Ravenstein, the father of modern migration studies, is that for every stream of migrants there is a counter-stream. One of his famous ‘law’ of migration, this finds illustration in the flows from the major cities in North America and Australasia back to Chinese cities, particularly Hong Kong and Taipei, but also other major cities in East and Southeast Asia. Much of this movement is within net-works established by transnational companies, the headquarters of which are in the global cities; some of the movement is of Chinese returning to their home places either independently or through their employ-ment in transnational companies