Full Description
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.
Contents
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
