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Chinese Family Firm
comparative capitalism
cultural diversity in Asian capitalism
David L. Szanton
Dong Ho
Dru C. Gladney
economic anthropology
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ethnic entrepreneurship
Gary G. Hamilton
guanxi
Guanxi Networks
Guanxi Ties
Hui Muslim
Hy Van Luong
indigenous
Indigenous Southeast Asians
Informal Money Market
Islamic Banking
Jamie Mackie
Javanese Culture
Javanese Traders
Jennifer Alexander
Kiln Owners
Large Business Groups
Le Duan
Malay Entrepreneurs
Malay Entrepreneurship
Married Men
Michael G. Peletz
Minangkabau Men
moral economy
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Overseas Chinese
Red River Delta
Robert P. Weller
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Shaun Kingsley Malarney
Singapore Malays
social networks in business
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Southeast Asia economic transformation
Southeast Asian Chinese
Southeast Asian Chinese Communities
Tania Murray Li
Western Market Culture
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- ISBN 9780813333601
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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One of the most remarkable developments of our time has been the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. Market Cultures examines this event, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in light of the institutions through which local people give meaning and moral value to business enterprise. The chapters show that some Chinese and Southeast Asians have welcomed new forms of enterprise and consumption, but others regard both with strong ethical reservations. Eschewing talk of a uniform Asian ?miracle,? this volume argues that Chinese and Southeast Asian societies had cultural precedents for and against market capitalism, reflecting subcultural heritages of religion, ethnicity, gender, and class.The case studies illustrate the deeply embedded nature of market institutions and reveal a moral and organizational variety unacknowledged in most analysis of modern capitalism. Rather than a unitary Confucian perspective on capitalism, contributors show that modern Chinese tradition has been interpreted in strikingly different ways by men and women, elites and masses, the wealthy and the poor. Avoiding stereotypes of ?Asian values,? the volume's essays on Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore portray local worlds deeply?but differentially?engaged with market capitalism.Addressing one of the great social transformations of our time, Market Cultures will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, political economists, and students of Asian history and culture, as well as those concerned with the economic ascent of modern Asia and its implications for our world.
Robert W. Hefner is professor of anthropology and associate director at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University.
