Chinese Capitalisms

by Chan, Kwok-bun; Cheung, Tak-sing; Ku, Agnes S. M.

• ISBN13: 9789004168244
• ISBN10: 9004168249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.

Table of Contents

Special Focus: Chinese Capitalisms
From Destitute to Xiao Kang (Well-Being), Maybe Da Guo (Great Nation): Explorations of Chinese Capitalisms and Capitalist Actions	p. 3
Emerging Chinese Capitalism and its Theoretical and Global Significance	p. 13
The "Spirit" of Capitalism in China: Contemporary Meanings of Weber's Thought	p. 63
Taiwan's Industrialisation: The Rise of a Demand-Responsive Economy	p. 95
Taishang: A Different Kind of Ethnic Chinese Business in Southeast Asia	p. 133
Entrepreneurship and Risk: The Becoming of the Koo Business Dynasty	p. 153
Articles
Family Resources and Educational Stratification: The Case of Hong Kong, 1981-2001	p. 177
The Transnational Linkages of Chinese in Toronto	p. 207
Rediscovering Chinese Society in the Socialist Era: Using the Past to Serve the Present	p. 227
Book Reviews
Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies, by Gary G. Hamilton. London, New York: Routledge, 2006	p. 249
As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim, by Chen Xiangming. Lanham, M. D.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005	p. 252
Alternate Identities: The Chinese if Contemporary Thailand, edited by Tong Chee Kiong and Chan Kwok-bun, Singapore: Times Academic Press; Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001	p. 255
Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang (Chinese Worlds), by Wu Xiaoan. London, New York: Routledge-Curzon, 2003	p. 260
Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 1840's-1950's, edited by Chu Yik-yi Cindy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005	p. 262
Life is Elsewhere: Stories of the Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong (in Chinese), by Wang Cangbai. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2006	p. 265
Social Survey Research in Practice: Chinese Experience and Analysis (in Chinese), edited by Bian Yanjie, Li Lulu and Cai He. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2004	p. 269
Childrearing Values in the United States and China: A Comparison of Belief Systems and Social Structure, by Xiao Hong, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001	p. 271
Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage: Professional Practice in the Hong Kong Cultural Context, edited by Katherine P. H. Young and Anita Y. L. Fok. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005	p. 274
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