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Where there are Asians, there are rice cookers : how "national" went global via Hong Kong / Yoshiko Nakano.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America) Available online
Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nakano, Yoshiko.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kitchen appliances industry--Japan.
- Strategic alliances (Business)--Japan.
- Strategic alliances (Business)--China--Hong Kong.
- Commercial products--Modification for export--China--Hong Kong.
- Globalization--Economic aspects--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- A note to the reader
- Maps
- Introduction
- Let's take our rice cookers to the world
- You have to diversify to survive
- You salarymen can't think outside the box!
- Water flows downward
- Pay in Hong Kong; Pick up in China
- What if we can't buy a rice cooker in Canada?
- Only they would know
- Epilogue
- Who's who at Matsushita
- Chronology
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 988-220-768-5
- 1-282-75023-2
- 9786612750236
- 988-220-526-7
- OCLC:
- 710218776
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