Market cultures : society and morality in the new Asian capitalisms / [edited by] Robert W. Hefner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hefner, Robert W., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic anthropology.

Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Social conditions.

Moral conditions.

East Asia--Moral conditions.

East Asia.

East Asia--Social conditions.

East Asia--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects--East Asia.

Capitalism.

Economic anthropology--East Asia.

Physical Description:

vii, 328 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

Summary:

MARKET CULTURES examines the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. Case studies illuminate a cultural variety unacknowledged in most analyses of modern capitalism, but vitally important for anyone wishing to understand one of the great economic transformations of our time.

Contents:

Introduction: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms / Robert W. Hefner 1

Part 1 Chinese Capitalisms and Cultural Pluralism

1 Culture and Organization in Taiwan's Market Economy / Gary G. Hamilton 41

2 Divided Market Cultures in China: Gender, Enterprise, and Religion / Robert P. Weller 78

3 Getting Rich Is Not So Glorious: Contrasting perspectives on Prosperity Among Muslims and Han in China / Dru C. Gladney 104

Part 2 Indigenes and Chinese in Southeast Asia

4 Business Success Among Southeast Asian Chinese: The Role of Culture, Values, and Social Structures / Jamie Mackie 129

5 Constituting Capitalist Culture: The Singapore Malay Problem and Entrepreneurship Reconsidered / Tania Murray Li 147

6 The "Great Transformation" Among Negeri Sembilan Malays, with Particular Reference to Chinese and Minangkabau / Michael G. Peletz 173

Part 3 Southeast Asian Capitalisms

7 Women Traders in Javanese Marketplaces: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit / Jennifer Alexander 203

8 Markets and Justice for Muslim Indonesians / Robert W. Hefner 224

9 Contingent Moralities: Social and Economic Investment in a Philippine Fishing Town / David L. Szanton 257

10 State Stigma, Family Prestige, and the Development of Commerce in the Red River Delta of Vietnam / Shaun Kingsley Malarney 268

11 Engendered Entrepreneurship: Ideologies and Political-Economic Transformation in a Northern Vietnamese Center of Ceramics Production / Hy van Luong 290.

Notes:

"This book is the product of a dialogue that began with a conference at the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University in October 1994 and then continued in meetings and correspondence for another two years. The 1994 conference was sponsored by the Joint Committees on Southeast Asia and China of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813333598

0813333601

OCLC:

37513128