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Conflict and Innovation: Joint Ventures in China
Edited by Leo Douw and Chan Kwok-bun
Publication year: 2006
Series: International Comparative Social Studies, 11
ISBN-13: 978 9004151 88 8
ISBN-10: 90 04 15188
Cover: Hardback
Number of pages: viii, 288 pp.
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List price: € 86.00 / US$ 116.00
This book features
Much of the book focuses on the relations among personnel and management within Sino-foreign businesses. It highlights how new elements have been introduced in the daily practices of management at the work floor and in the managerial offices, specifically in relation to improving human resource development and resolving conflicts. The book also examines how these transnational firms function in the broader context of Chinese society and politics.
In providing freshly researched cases and methodological studies by experienced researchers in the field, the book suggests alternative pathways toward innovative business management in
中港徘徊：反思香港巡迴移民企業家的經驗
Circuit Entrepreneurs: A Study of Mobile Chinese Immigant Entrepreneurs
Chan Kwok-bun & Chan Wai-wan
Department of Sociology,
E-mail: ckb@hkbu.edu.hk , vivienww@hkbu.edu.hk
Tel: (852) 34117130, Fax: (852) 34117893
Abstract
This book is an empirical and theoretical study in immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurship which, as a field of studies, brings together insights of race and ethnic relations on the one hand, and of economic sociology on the other hand. From the outset, the book attempts to push the intellectual frontiers of immigrant entrepreneurship further by looking sideways to the social psychology of identities as well as to cutting-edge research on social networks and social capital—the authors are curious and anxious to find theoretical connections and associations. The result is a complex, intriguing but revealing tapestry of sociological craftsmanship.
The book begins with a simple triangle of spaces and places-- birthplace, home and workplace-- and painstakingly describes the forces of tension and dynamics of mobility, or even hypermobility, within this triangle while pointing out the delight and the plight, the pains and the agonies of the triangle's triangulation. The authors are careful enough not to fall into the traditional-orothodox trap of putting businessmen, merchants and tycoons on a pedestal, celebrating, glorifying, mystifying, eulogizing them as economic, or even moral, heroes. Yes, the sociologists admire the immigrant entrepreneurs in that they all seem to have learned their "tricks of trade" well: they manipulate and present their differential identities depending on the nature of their audiences, like the masks they put on and off, sort of "one face, many masks"--such strategic social conduct serves the entrepreneur well because it facilitates the construction of social networks which have proven to be indispensable to closing many business deals. In analyses of this nature, the two sociologists have aptly drawn upon the social psychology of Erving Goffman, specifically the latter's writings on presentation of self and strategic interaction in public places, and their former works on business networks and ethnic identities-- and the latter's alternation. As it happens, the book reveals page after page, an almost innate intimacy between identities, social networks, and business conduct. The social etiquette of an entrepreneur, in both public and private spheres, has become an art form while the entrepreneur has transformed himself or herself into an artist, perhaps a con artist who has perfected the manuoeuvre of deception and, sometimes, unconsciously, self-deception, as Goffman would put it. However fantastic and tantalizing such a portrait of entrepreneur is being made out to be, the book reminds its readers that mobility is a double-edged sword: mobility and identity alternation have their dark side, their liability, their costs. The entrepreneur is a self-perfected juggler who plays tricks by slight of hand and who shows false appearances of extraordinary performances. But, occasionally, one or two balls that are thrown up into the air may fall, sometimes disastrously, other times tragically. Too many false appearances or self-presentations may mean the juggler is no longer recognizable by others-- and by himself or herself. The social psychologist, if not the Marxian or the Durkheimian, will call these conditions or states of mind alienation/estrangement, and self-alienation/self estrangement. The entrepreneur's friends, business associates, even spouse and children, are questioning his or her sincerity, loyalty and authenticity--culminating in a moment of existential crisis in which an all-important question becomes unanswerable: who am I? The entrepreneur has become a stranger to others, to family, and, finally, to himself or herself. In such a chilling character sketch of the modern man and woman in a social condition of modernity and postmodernity, the authors are resurrecting a specter from the sociological past-- Simmel's and Schultz's stranger, Weber's rationalization, Marx's alienation, Durkheim's and Merton's anomie.
In the end, the book serves two crucial reminders. First, the businessman is a person who does business, which means the sociologist must come to grips with not only the rationality and instrumentality of business conduct, but also the emotions, happy and unhappy, of the businessman as a person who, like it or not, always exists in a social context. The prevailing sociological literature as well as the popular press says too much about business logic, but too little about the other side: its sometimes unspeakable emotionality. So, future works on entrepreneurship must cross a deep divide, which separates the rational and the emotional. The second reminder stems from a critical reflexibility about globalization and hypermobility: like most things in life, mobility comes in a mixed bag; life on a mobile fast track is taxing, sometimes unforgiving. The final penalty? He or she has, unfortunately, failed to recognize himself or herself--as a human being.
本書簡介
這本書主要研究一群經常在原出生地（中國內地祖家），再居地（香港）和企業經營地（內地某地）三角空間內縱橫馳騁的“巡迴移民企業家”。通過對十八位移民企業家，以及其家人，朋友和生意夥伴的深入訪談﹐本書主要有三方面的發現。其一，身份認同在跨界的生意往來和地方性的網絡構建過程中發揮了有效的工具性作用。多元身份認同的變換是流動移民企業家的一個特徵，也是他們在商場上一種“印象管理” 的策略— 一張面孔，多重面具,移民企業家以多姿多采的身段在商業舞臺上粉墨登場。其二，移民企業家離家在外,經營生意有其蒼涼、無奈和沮喪的一面,高流動性的生活方式是愉悅和痛苦並存，它帶給商人不少裨益和利潤的同時，也給他們帶來“自我疏離”的痛苦。這種被他人以“陌生人”對待的情況無疑為流動移民企業家帶來不為人瞭解的迷茫和悲痛。其三，有感於文獻中對商人的研究只著重於商人經商的一面，而忽略了對商人作為一個人的認識，因而本書提出“情感社會學”的迫切性，指出社會學的研究不應該過份偏重科學化的理智分析，而偏離了對人的情感認知。
活在別處: 香港印尼華人口述歷史
Life is Elsewhere: Stories of the Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong (Text in Chinese)
Author: Wang Cangbai (王蒼柏)
Publisher: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong
Description
This is a book of life stories of ten Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong, who were born in Indonesia in the 1930s and 1940s, moved to China in the 1950s and 1960s and exited to Hong Kong in the 1970s. Their transnational movement exhibits typical features of the “traveling culture”, which is “traveling-in-dwelling, dwelling-in-traveling”. Their experience is part of Hong Kong stories, and more importantly, poses theoretical questions on Diaspora and globalization, calling for redefinition of the taken-for-granted concepts like “identity”, “home” and “networking”.
This book distinguishes itself from other oral history works in three ways. First, it weaves personal stories into the grand history of Southeast Asian Chinese; second, it combines texts and visual documents together; third, it balances story-telling and with theoretical reflections. The 160 historical photos collected in this book make up valuable archives for the study of diasporic Chinese.
http://www.hkupress.org/asp/bookinfo.asp?PD_NUM=9789628269471
Beyond Chinatown
New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China
Mette Thuno (ed.)
Series: NIAS Studies in Asian Topics | Volume: 41
Published by NIAS Press, 2007
304 pp. | Ilustrations
Status: Recently Published
Description
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A sweeping study of Chinese migration past and present
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Highlights the growing pride in their roots among ex-pat Chinese
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Of vital interest to migration scholars, but also to the Chinese diaspora and to anyone interested in the issues of migration today
A bachelor society, men brought in by the shipload to labour in harsh, slave-like conditions, often for decades. Aliens despised and feared by their hosts. The hope: to return home as rich men. This was the exceptional and ambivalent nature of much of Chinese migration in the 19th and early 20th centuries - quite different in nature to the permanent migration of families and individuals from Europe to the New World at that same time. But stay, some Chinese did; rough camps and shantytowns became more settled Chinatowns across the globe.
Slavery is not dead. Thousands still leave China for the industrialized world, their freedom and livelihoods in pawn to people smugglers. But China has changed, transformed by decades of economic liberalization and rapid economic growth. Most migrants - both women and men - now leave China for a more promising future and often find ways to bring their families with them. Chinese migration is no longer exceptional, yet distinct.
Today, China matters - all around the world. Both its insatiable demand for raw materials and its flood of exported manufactures affect everyone; distant corners of the Third World that once had never heard of China now have a thriving Chinese presence. And, suddenly, third-generation Chinese who once could not wait to escape their Chinatown now proudly proclaim their ethnic Chinese identity.
Because it opens a new approach to the study of recent Chinese migration, this volume will be of vital interest in the field of both general and Chinese migration studies. But, bringing to life as it does the momentous changes sweeping the Chinese world in all parts of the globe, it will also attract a far wider readership. 
New title from University of Hawai‘i Press
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb. New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries
Edited by WEI LI
Title data: May 2006, 288 pages, 15 illus., 12 maps
ISBN 0-8248-2911-5 / 978-0-8248-2911-7, cloth, US$54.00
Abstract
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on the transformation of metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These stories of the interactivity of Asian “people and place” in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racialization theories, and emerging landscapes in the downtowns and suburbs of metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, and Auckland.
The book’s primary arguments center on revisioning traditional “assimilationist” models of the Chicago School with the context of today’s evolving metropolis. Other key elements include immigrant and refugee policies, new theories of ethnic settlement, and urban and suburban immigrant landscape forms.
Nine chapters document the experiences of Asian immigrants and refugees—rich and poor, old and new. Their communities vary from no identifiable residential cluster (Vietnamese in Northern Virginia) to multiple residential and business clusters in both inner city and suburbs (Koreans in Los Angeles, Hong Kong Chinese in Toronto) to the largest suburban Chinese residential and business concentration (the San Gabriel Valley of suburban Los Angeles) and the “high-tech Mecca” of the U.S., if not the world (Silicon Valley), whose growth has been inseparable from workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs of Asian descents who are often local residents as well.
Rich in detail and broad in scope, From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb is the first book to focus exclusively on the Asian immigrant communities in multiethnic suburbs. It effectively demonstrates the complexity of contemporary Asian immigrant and refugee groups and the strength of their communities across the Pacific Rim. It will be welcomed by a wide range of readers with interests in Asian American studies, urban geography, the Chinese diaspora, immigration, and transnationalism.
Wei Li is associate professor in the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and affiliated with the departments of geography and women’s studies, the School of Justice and Social Inquiry, and the Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University.
Online order: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/
New title from Pathfinder Press
Our History is Still Being Written:The story of three Chinese-Cuban generals in the Cuban revolution
by Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui and Moisés Sío Wong
edited by Mary-Alice Waters ISBN 0-87348-978-0
Title data: 224pages; 24-page photosignature; index; glossary; annotated. This is a quality paperback, price £14.
Also available in Spanish, ISBN 0-87348-979-9
A chapter in the chronicle of the Cuban revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui and Moisés Sío Wong — three young rebels of Chinese-Cuban ancestry — threw themselves into the great proletarian battle that defined their generation. They became combatants in the clandestine struggle and 1956-58 revolutionary war that brought down a US-backed dictatorship and opened the door to the socialist revolution in the Americas. Each became a general in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Here they talk about the historic place of Chinese immigration to Cuba, as well as more than five decades of revolutionary action and internationalism, from Cuba to Angola, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Through their stories the social and political forces that gave birth to the Cuban nation and still shape our epoch unfold. We see how millions of ordinary men and women like them changed the course of history, becoming different human beings in the process.
Available from Pathfinder Books,120 Bethnal Green Road (first floor, entrance in Brick Lane), London E2 6DG and all good bookshops.
Online order: www.pathfinderpress.com
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The Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity By Bernard Wong
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield , 2005.
AbstractThe Chinese in Silicon Valley examines the complex and ever-growing role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley. Globalization brings workers from many different countries and cultures together, impacting more than just their work environments. The Chinese who settle in Silicon Valley must learn to prosper despite changes in cultural identity, family life, and often citizenship. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a shifting ethnic identity.
The Chinese community in Silicon Valley is being developed with the advantages and constraints of many factors: the new global economy, technology, the Chinese immigrants' traditional culture, and the American host culture. Bernard Wong shows that the formation of Chinese American ethnic identity and community is a result of this globalization and transnationalism.
This informative book presents important new knowledge on the connection between Chinese ethnicity and highly-skilled labor and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. Secondary statistical data combined with primary personal interview data makes this a detailed and interesting study of globalization, social networks, and ethnic identity.
This book is available on-line from Rowman & Littlefield
Overseas Chinese Affairs and National Diplomacy:
Review and thought on China’s Abandonment of Dual Nationality
Chengxi
(Chinese institute for Overseas Chinese History Studies, No.1 Beixingqiao Santiao Beijing 100007, China / E-mail: qlchengxi@yahoo.com.cn)
Abstract
Through examining the issue of dual nationality of Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and with empirical studies, this book discussed the diplomatic background in the years of 1954 and 1955 when China decided to abandon the policy of dual nationality, with a focus on the relationship between the Overseas Chinese affairs and China’s diplomacy in the early period of PRC.
In Chapter One, the author first emphasised the differences between Overseas Chinese and Chinese Overseas in terms of nationality, pointing out that Overseas Chinese affairs and relevant government agencies attracted special attentions in new China, and Overseas Chinese or Chinese Overseas communities meant significantly to China at that time though China had never been a country that sent most immigrants abroad in the world. Based upon the literature review on the topic, the author brought the theme to the fore – While Overseas Chinese affairs at home had to serve the needs of Chinese communities overseas, the whole Overseas Chinese affairs needed not only serve to but also be subordinate to the national diplomacy. Moreover, Overseas Chinese affairs had to play a complementary role towards national diplomacy in certain special historical periods. Abandonment of dual nationality was thus a most important historical case in point, which closely connected Overseas Chinese affairs with Chinese national diplomacy. In other words, for the first time the Overseas Chinese affairs are being observed in connection with Chinese national diplomacy.
In Chapter Two, the author gave an account of the origin of the dual nationality issue among Overseas Chinese and described the positive roles played by the Blood-lineage Nationality in historical China, pointing out that in fact the newly established China initially did not want to give up the dual nationality policy. This chapter then mainly discussed why Chinese authorities changed this policy. It is stressed that the abandonment of dual nationality policy was a significant move insofar as the diplomatic strategy adjustment was concerned, and the decision could not been made until some key factors such as neighbouring security environment and national interests were taken into consideration.
The pros and cons of abandoning the dual nationality policy were carefully analyzed in Chapter Three. While acknowledging the necessity to abandon the policy in order to win over the support of Indonesia and launch a harmonious diplomacy towards neighbouring countries of Southeast Asia in the 1950s, the author believed that the policy change had its drawbacks. The dual nationality was actually not a fundamental problem faced by Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. The complexity of Overseas Chinese communities led to the abandonment of dual nationality policy, but the abandonment itself was one-sided good wish from the Chinese government. Here again the author emphasised the theme, that is, the issue of dual nationality was closely related to the geopolitics and China’s status as a big country in East Asia. The abandonment of the dual nationality policy in the period of 1954-55 through the negotiations was an important footnote to the adjustment of China’s diplomatic strategy and policies.
Chapter Four examined the Overseas Chinese affairs in the 1950s against the background of the adjusted Chinese diplomatic strategies and policies. The author analysed in depth how the Overseas Chinese affairs were subordinate to the needs of national diplomacy with specific cases drawn from the Overseas Chinese remittance, and for the first time pointed out that the Overseas Chinese affairs actually played a complementary and supporting role towards the national diplomacy.
In concluding and supplement chapter, the author summarised main points and arguments presented previously, together with brief comments on current Chinese migration and relevant research theories. These two chapters reiterated the issue of dual nationality in connection with the emergence of new migrants from mainland China over the last two decades, suggesting targets at two levels for the current Overseas Chinese affairs: While to better serve the development of Overseas Chinese and Chinese Overseas in their respective host societies on the one hand and the returned Overseas Chinese in China on the other, we need to more effectively tap the potential of this unique social group embedded with special values because of its transnational immigration experiences.
Ambition and Identity:
Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880–1916
by Andrew R. Wilson
"Andrew Wilson's perspectives and interpretations are original and much needed.... This book will significantly enrich both the fields of Philippine history and Chinese diaspora studies." --Edgar Wickberg, professor emeritus, University of British Columbia
What binds overseas Chinese communities together? Traditionally scholars have stressed the interplay of external factors (discrimination, local hostility) and internal forces (shared language, native-place ties, family) to account for the cohesion and "Chineseness" of these overseas groups. Andrew Wilson challenges this Manichean explanation of identity by introducing a third factor: the ambitions of the Chinese merchant elite, which played an equal, if not greater, role in the formation of ethnic identity among the Chinese in colonial Manila.
Drawing on Chinese, Spanish, and American sources and applying a broad range of historiographical approaches, this volume dissects the structures of authority and identity within Manila’s Chinese community over a period of dramatic socioeconomic change and political upheaval. It reveals the ways in which wealthy Chinese merchants dealt in not only goods and services, but also political influence and the movement of human talent from China to the Philippines. Their influence and status extended across the physical and political divide between China and the Philippines, from the villages of southern China to the streets of Manila, making them a truly transnational elite. Control of community institutions and especially migration networks accounts for the cohesiveness of Manila's Chinese enclave, argues Wilson, and the most successful members of the elite self-consciously chose to identify themselves and their protégés as Chinese.
Andrew R. Wilson is associate professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College, where he lectures on military history and strategic theory.
University of Hawai`i Press. Cloth $55.00
Chinese in the Caribbean
Edited by Andrew Wilson
The history of the Caribbean is a history of migrations. The peoples of the region came as conquerors and planters, slaves and indentured laborers from all parts of the globe. Each group contributed to the social fabric, culture, and commerce of the region. The Chinese diaspora has spread Chinese people and culture around the world, including to the Caribbean, where Chinese exist both as distinct ethnic groups within Caribbean societies and as shapers of unique Caribbean cultures.
The book describes not merely the arrival and experience of Chinese in the Caribbean but also the ways in which Chinese have adapted to and altered the region. Included are the histories of Chinese people in Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and the British West Indies, and overcame, their slow rise to economic independence and success, their contribution to art, theater, cuisine, and literature, their roles in the region's national revolutions, their place in post-colonial politics, and the subsequent remigrations of individuals, families, and entire communitites to North America.
Markus Wiener Hardcover ($68.95)Paperback ($24.95)
Chinese Women & Their Cultural & Network Capitals
Editor Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
Women rely on social and network capital both within their own community and-especially for those who have migrated to another country-outside of their native social environment. In both cases, whenever possible, they would rely on the traditional network resources, but if they are unable to do so, then they create new sets of network capital to further their own needs. To do so, they need to have some form of social capital and this comes in the form of knowledge, skills, as well as social relationship.
The objective of this book is to explore how Chinese women create social and network capital and use these resources to further their own interests in social and economic position as well as to cope and adapt to a rapidly changing environment today.
Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She has been Visiting Scholar to Harvard University, Harvard-Yenching Institute, and East Asian Institute (Singapore).
Marshall Cavendish US$ 19.00
CHINESE MIGRATION IN GERMANY
MAKING HOME IN TRANSNATIONAL SPACE
by Maggi Wai-Han Leung
Book description:
This book is about the life experiences of ethnic Chinese migrants in Germany. Considering the economic, social and psychological aspect of "home-making", Leung seeks to deepen our understanding of the ways in which individuals and communities leave their homes, establish new ones and maintain multiple homes in transnational space. Home and home-making are explored in relationship to the concepts "diaspora" and "transnationalism". The various chapters in this book encompass a broad landscape in exploring various aspects of home-making. This includes an investigation of migrants' perceptions of home and the meanings they attach to it. The crucial role played by the host society in providing an inhabitable space for migrants is underlined. It also examines the nature and activities undertaken by community organisations in hope of providing diaspora individuals with a sense of communal belonging when they are far from their original homes. Yet further, the study analyses the conditions under which entrepreneurship can be a means for securing a livelihood in a new land. Based on in-depth interviews and with overseas Chinese and fieldwork observations, this book provides an enthralling contemporary account of the Chinese communities in Germany.
The book can be ordered directly from IKO-Publisher
(info@iko-verlag.de). Price: EUR 19.90
Golden threads
the Chinese in regional New South Wales 1850-1950
by Janis Wilton
Tells the story of the Chinese people who came to and sometimes settled in NSW from the first arrivals in the early 19th century, through the turbulent goldrush years and into the 20th century. Through their compelling and largely previously unpublished stories, the book explores their experiences, working lives, hopes and beliefs, and the attitudes of a white Australia which viewed the Chinese at one extreme as a menacing threat and at the other an exotic presence. The book is structured around the themes of work, language, leisure, food, beliefs, leaving and staying. Richly illustrated in full colour, it brings together material from diverse sources including oral histories and knowledge, government and media records, and objects from local museums and family collections. A great resource for any interested in Australian-Chinese migration history and culture.
Chinese Indonesians: State Policy, Monoculture and Multiculture
edited by Leo Suryadinata. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press/Marshall Cavendish, 2004. 124 pages ISBN 981-210-298-1
Editorial Reviews
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Social scientists from Indonesia, Australia, and Singapore offer a range of perspectives on the sizable ethnic Chinese population in the country and the impact of the state on its society and culture. Among the topics are historical impediments to the acceptance of ethnic Chinese in multicultural Indonesia, the social and cultural dimension of gender-based violence, and ethnic Chinese literature. Six of the seven essays are from an international symposium held in Bali in July 2002. Distributed by ISBS.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Peranakan's Search for National Identity: Biographical Studies of Seven Indonesian Chinese
by Leo Suryadinata. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International, 2004, 164 pp. ISBN981-210-361-9 (First published in 1993 by Times Academic Press, reissued with a new postscript.)
THE CHINESE DIASPORA: SPACE, PLACE, MOBILITY AND IDENTITY
edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. 400 pp. Hardcover, $80; paperback, $34.95.
The publisher’s ad says: “In this first book to explore the Chinese diaspora from geographical perspectives, leading scholars in the field consider the profound importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese overseas. They trace the Chinese diaspora everywhere it has become a significant force, from Southeast Asia to Oceania, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Providing an important historical perspective, the contributors analyze the sharp differences between sojourning Chinese prior to the 1960s and the transnational Chinese of the current era, especially in terms of spatial distribution, mobility, economic status, occupational structure, and identity formation. Anyone interested in the powerful phenomenon of Chinese migration will find this comprehensive work an invaluable resource.”
List of contributors: Carolyn L. Cartier, Sen-dou Chang, C. Cindy Fan, You-tien Hsing, Manying Ip, Robert B. Kent, Lily Kong, David Chuenyan Lai, Maggie W. H. Leung, George C. S. Lin, Laurence J. C. Ma, Jonathan Rigg, Ronald Skeldon, Jack F. Williams, Chung-Tung Wu, and Brenda Yeoh.
Please consider ordering a copy for yourself and/or your library. You can order the book directly from the publisher’s website (http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com) or by calling its Customer Service Department at 1-800-462-6420.
LAW AND THE CHINESE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
edited by M Barry Hooker. 2002. 216 pages. ISBN 981-230-125-9 (soft cover) S$49.90/US$29.90
This collection of essays focuses on law and the diaspora Chinese. They show us a variety of answers to such questions as: what are the laws of China outside China; what are the laws of the Chinese in Southeast Asia; what were/are the laws for the Chinese in Southeast Asia; and is there a "Confucian Chinese"? The answers in some cases are reasonably certain but in others they are tentative and debatable. The legal material raises these issues in a way which is fundamental to diaspora studies.
Single chapters are now available for purchase electronically at S$10.20/US$6.00 per chapter. Buy the whole book electronically at S$68.00/US$40.00. Libraries must first seek permission to obtain the electronic version of these chapters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Law and the Chinese Outside China: A Preliminary Survey of the Issues and the Literature by M Barry Hooker
2. The Legal Position of the Ethnic Chinese in Indochina under French Rule by Melissa Chung
3. Law and Memory, De Jure to De Facto: Confucianization and its Implications for Family and Property in Vietnam by Esta Ungar
4. English Law and the Invention of Chinese Personal Law in Singapore and Malaysia by M Barry Hooker
5. The Indonesian Chinese: "Foreign Orientals", Netherlands Subjects, and Indonesian Citizens by Charles A Coppel
6. Chinese Family Firms in Indonesia and the Question of "Confucian Corporatism" by Daniel Fitzpatrick
7. China's Citizenship Law and the Chinese in Southeast Asia by Leo Suryadinata
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CHINESE OVERSEAS: COMPARATIVE CULTURAL ISSUES
by Tan Chee-Beng
This book examines issues of cultural change and identity construction of Chinese overseas, as well as other important issues such as Chinese and non-Chinese relations, and cultural and economic performance. It offers a perspective of understanding Chinese overseas in nation-states and beyond, in a global context which the author describes as the Chinese ethnological field.
The author's many years of research on cultural change and Chinese ethnicity in Southeast Asia enables him to describe vividly the effects of localization -- the process of becoming local and identifying with the locals -- on Chinese ethnicity and cultural identities. This informative and theoretically interesting book enables readers to have a deeper understanding of the issue of Chinese and Chinese-ness in the diaspora.
Tan Chee-Beng is Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Read more about the book at http://www.hkupress.org/book/962209662X.htm
Ethnic Relations and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia: The Case of the Ethnic Chinese
edited by Leo Suryadinata
2004 251 pages
Soft cover: ISBN 981-230-170-4 S$39.90/US$25.90
Hard cover: ISBN 981-230-182-8 S$69.90/US$45.90
About the Publication
Ethnic/racial relations have been a perennial theme in Southeast Asian studies. Current events have highlighted the tensions among ethnic groups and the need to maintain ethnic/racial harmony for national unity. This book analyses ethnic/race relations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, with special reference to the roles of ethnic Chinese in nation-building. It brings together a group of established Southeast Asian scholars to critically examine some of the important issues such as ethnic politics, nation-building, state policies, and conflict resolution. These scholars of different ethnic origins present their own ethnic perspectives and hence make the book unique. This is the most up-to-date book on ethnic/racial relations with special reference to the ethnic Chinese in three Southeast Asian countries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ethnic Relations and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia: The Case of the Ethnic Chinese
Preliminary pages
1. Chinese Ethnicity in New Southeast Asian Nations , by Wang Gungwu
2. Unity in Diversity: Ethnic Chinese and Nation-Building in Indonesia , by Mely G Tan
3. Pri and Non-Pri Relations in the Reform Era: A Pribumi Perspective , by A Dahana
4. Racial Discrimination in the Indonesian Legal System: Ethnic Chinese and Nation-Building , by A Dahana
5. Differing Perspectives on Integration and Nation-Building in Malaysia , by Lee Kam Hing
6. Text and Collective Memories: The Construction of Chinese and Chineseness from the Perspective of a Malay , by A B Shamsul
7. Nation-Building in Malaysia: Victimization of Indians? , by P Ramasamy
8. The Majority's Sacrifices and Yearnings: Chinese-Singaporeans and the Dilemmas of Nation-Building , by Eugene Tan Kheng Boon
9. Ethnic Relations in Singapore: Evidence from Survey Data , by Tan Ern Ser
10. An Outsider Looking In at Chinese Singaporeans , by Sharon Siddique
11. Ethnic Chinese and Nation-Building: Concluding Remarks , by Leo Suryadinata
Index of Names; Index of Subjects
edited by Daljit Singh, Chin Kin Wah Daljit Singh, Chin Kin Wah
2004 312 pages
Soft cover: ISBN 981-230-238-7 S$39.90/US$24.90
Hard cover: ISBN 981-230-239-5 S$59.90/US$36.90
About the Publication
Southeast Asian Affairs, of which there are now thirty-one in the series, is an annual review of significant developments and trends in the region. Though the emphasis is on ASEAN countries, developments in the broader Asia-Pacific region are not ignored. Readable and easily understood analyses are offered of major political, economic, social, and strategic developments within Southeast Asia.
The contributions can be divided into two broad categories. There are those which provide an analysis of major developments during 2003 in individual Southeast Asian countries and in the region generally. Then there are the theme articles of a more specialized nature which deal with topical problems of concern.
The volume contains twenty articles dealing with such major themes as international conflict and co-operation, political stability, and economic growth and development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Southeast Asian Affairs 2004
Preliminary pages
THE REGION
ASEAN in 2003: Adversity and Response , by Richard W Stubbs
Southeast Asia's Economic Performance: Achievements and Challenges , by Anne Booth
Southeast AsiaChina Relations: Dialectics of "Hedging" and "Counter-Hedging" , by Chien-peng (C.P.) Chung
Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Ideological and Political Dimensions , by Kumar Ramakrishna
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
Brunei Darussalam: Steady Ahead , by Hj Md. Yusop Hj Damit
CAMBODIA
Cambodia: Strongman, Terrible Man, Invisible Man, and Politics of Power Sharing , by Tin Maung Maung Than
INDONESIA Indonesia: Continuing Challenges and Fragile Stability , by Leo Suryadinata Sabah and Sarawak: The More Things Change the More They Remain the Same , by James Chin
br /> The Philippines: Playing Out Long Conflicts , by Paul A Rodell Singapores Bilateral Trading Arrangements in the Context of East Asian Regionalism: State of Play, Issues, and Prospects , by Linda Low
THAILAND
Thailand: International Terrorism and the Muslim South , by Kavi Chongkittavorn
VIETNAM , by Nguyen Manh Hung
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