Qiaoxiang Ties (eBook, PDF)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to 'Cultural Capitalism' in South China
Redaktion: Douw, Leo; Godley, Michael R.; Huang, Cen

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1999. This volume is a product of the research programme of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, entitled International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. The programme will run from 1996-2000 (for a fuller description, please see the Appendix chapter). The book was prepared during a workshop at the International Convention of Asian Scholars, 25-8 June 1997, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136178337
• Artikelnr.: 39960020

Autorenporträt

LEO DOUW is a lecturer in Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and the Free University Amsterdam. His research is concerned with the twentieth century intellectual history of China, on which he wrote his Ph.D. (1991), and with the impact of ethnic Chinese transnational investment on the society and politics of South China. He is a director of the HAS research programme on International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. MICHAEL R. GODLEY, who recently retired from Monash University, Australia, was trained in Chinese politics and Asian history. His publications include The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China (Cambridge University Press, 1981) and several dozen chapters, articles and essays. At present, Dr Godley is a visiting fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora at the ANU. CEN HUANG is currently a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden. Her research project is concerned with the structure and social organization of overseas Chinese invested enterprises in South China with a special focus on cultural aspects of transnational managers and migrant workers.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Qiaoxiang Ties: 'Cultural Capitalism' in South China;
Introduction; The Chinese Sojourner Discourse; Mobilization Politics: The
Case of Siyi Businessmen in Hong Kong, 1890-1928; Cohesion and
Fragmentation: A County-Level Perspective on Chinese Transnationalism in
the 1940s; Bridges Across the Sea: Chinese Social Organizations in
Southeast Asia and the Links with Qiaoxiang, 1900-49; Government Policy in
the Reform Era: Interactions between Organs Responsible for Overseas
Chinese and Qiaoxiang Communities; The Singapore-Anxi Connection: Ancestor
Worship as Moral-Cultural Capital; Getting Things Done Across the Hong Kong
Border: Economic Culture in Theory and Practice; Overseas Chinese
Entrepreneurs: Cultural Norms as Resources and Constraints ; The Qiaoxiang
Irony: Migrant Labour in Overseas Chinese Enterprises; Culture as a
Management Issue: The Case of Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in the Pearl River
Delta; The Moral Economy of Profit: Diaspora Capitalism and the Future of
China; Appendix Chapter: A Note on the Study of Qiaoxiang Ties