The article is aimed at exploring the individual and collective business strategies of Chinese in Italy, and in Turin in particular. The essay draws from the results of a research on Chinese entrepreneurship carried out between 2010 and 2011 by FIERI in the frame of a joint research program with the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, and is based on qualitative life and business histories of Chinese entrepreneurs in Turin (Italy). First, some background historical and statistical data are provided in order to frame the phenomenon of self-employment of Chinese in Turin within the broader national context, highlighting some local features. Then, the migratory trajectories and professional pathways are analyzed, as well as the communitarian transnational resources activated for the startup of autonomous activities. The research reveals that Chinese migration and entrepreneurship are shaped by three fundamental elements: the close link between migration chains and job placement processes, the strong and ambivalent role of family and community networks in shaping socio-economic integration and the multilateral configuration of transnational interaction. Though, these features, rather than being interpreted as specific and exclusive of the "Chinese case”, reveal to be common to most migratory contexts and migration business compositions, as widely discussed in the literature, but in higher “doses”, constituting specific characteristics in terms of degree and intensity, rather than peculiarity in absolute terms.