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The fact that this book is being written about ethnic settlement and integration implies that there is a kind of relationship between them. For some 80 years since Park’s (1926) revolutionary idea of the physical analysis of social relations in spatial terms, we have known from most productive empirical work that social and spatial changes are intimately interwoven: A high degree of spatial integration is indicative of social integration. But surprisingly, in the Chinese case, shifts of physical space and their social implications have received little attention from British social geographers. How do we understand the settlement patterns of the (sub)ethnic Chinese population in Britain? What is the relationship between social distance and spatial distribution in this new wave of Chinese immigration? It is against this background that this study is carried out.