Commerce and capitalism in Chinese societies
By: by Gary G. Hamilton.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Capitalism -- China; Capitalism -- China -- History; Comparative economics; China -- Commerce; China -- Commerce -- History; China -- Economic conditions; China -- Foreign economic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: rethinking the economic sociology of East Asian capitalism; title: China's pre-industrial economy in comparative perspective; title: Civilizations and the organization of economies; title: Why no capitalism in China: negative questions in comparative historical sociology; title: Chinese consumption of foreign commodities; title: Commerce and the organization of China's late imperial economy (with Chang Wei-An and Lai Chi-Kong); title: Chinese capitalism in Asia; title: Hong Kong and the rise of capitalism in Asia; title: A reassessment of the "Asian miracle": U.S. retailers and Asian manufacturers (with Misha Petrovic and Robert C. Feenstra); title: Reflexive manufacturing: Taiwan's integration in the global economy (with Kao Cheng-Shu); title: Asian business networks in transition, or what Alan Greenspan does not know about the Asian financial crisis; title: Reciprocity and control: the organization of Chinese family-owned conglomerates; title: Competition and organization: a reexamination of Chinese business practices; title: Ethnicity and capitalist development: the changing role of the Chinese in Thailand (with Tony Waters).