1st Edition

Market Cultures Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

By Robert Hefner Copyright 1998
336 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

One of the most remarkable developments of our time has been the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. Market Cultures examines this event, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in light of the institutions through which local people give meaning and moral value to business enterprise. The chapters show that some Chinese and... Read more
Introduction -- Chinese Capitalisms and Cultural Pluralism -- Culture and Organization in Taiwan’s Market Economy -- Divided Market Cultures in China -- Getting Rich Is Not So Glorious -- Part Two Indigenes and Chinese in Southeast Asia -- Business Success Among Southeast Asian Chinese -- Constituting Capitalist Culture -- The “Great Transformation” Among Negeri Sembilan Malays, with Particular Reference to Chinese and Minangkabau -- Southeast Asian Capitalisms -- Women Traders in Javanese Marketplaces -- Markets and Justice for Muslim Indonesians -- Contingent Moralities -- State Stigma, Family Prestige, and the Development of Commerce in the Red River Delta of Vietnam -- Engendered Entrepreneurship

Biography

Robert Hefner