It is presented on three levels how a successful Chinese businesswomen dealt with her housing career upon her arrival to the Czech Republic and how she reflects her former and current situations. First, from the position of a member of an ethnic community in a minority position in the majority Czech society, second, in her relation to the social groups to which she belonged in her country of origin and that she assumed here, and, third, from the viewpoint of professed values of a certain lifestyle of the previous era, which means before her departure from her original home.