A01=Souchou Yao
anthropological fieldwork in Malaysia
Author_Souchou Yao
business
Category=GTM
Category=JBCC
Category=KJ
chinese
Chinese Business Networks
Chinese Business World
Chinese diaspora studies
Chinese Enterprise
Chinese Familism
Chinese Family Business
Chinese Family Firm
Chinese Towkays
Confucian Capitalism
economic anthropology
enterprise
entrepreneurs
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eq_business-finance-law
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
family
family business dynamics
Gold Fish
Guanxi Capitalism
Guanxi Exchange
guanxi networks
Guanxi Relationships
Guanxi Transactions
immigrant
Immigrant Enterprise
Jungle Township
Kan Dian
Long Houses
Modern Family
neo-Confucian societies
Oral History Department
Outpost Town
provision
shop
Social Economic Disadvantages
Social Reproduction
traders
Western Liberal Capitalism
whi
Women's Labour Power
workplace social relations
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780700715831
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The discourse of Confucian Capitalism has been crucial in shaping our understanding of the brilliant economic successes of the Chinese diaspora all over the world. From this perspective, hard work, family values, and communal cohesion, as well as business practices based on sentiment, trust, and social networks, are the legendary means of explaining the wealth and commercial talent of these remarkable people. The book examines the subject of Chinese business' by exposing the enduring myth about the determining effects of these values and practices supposedly derived from Confucianism. Such myth relies on an ahistorical and essentialised notion of Chinese Culture', and brings into focus three sites of controversy: the economically driven Chinese subject, work-place relations characterised by consensus and cultural sharing, and an operating ethos of collectivist, pre-capitalist sociality.
In its interrogation of the discourse of Confucian capitalism, it is the aim of this book to arrive at a critically informed and socially realistic understanding of Chinese business. The author combines abstract analysis with examples from anthropological fieldwork among Chinese traders in Sarawak, East Malaysia. By anchoring theoretical discussion to real case-studies, the multi-disciplinary approach of this book offers a useful insight into Chinese business activities, and contributes to current debates in cultural studies, economic anthropology, the economic performance of overseas Chinese, and neo-Confucian societies more generally.
Yao Souchou is affiliated to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia
