Market Cultures: Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

by Robert W. Hefner

Overview

Market Cultures examines the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. It does so, not through formal models, but by way of the varied cultures and organizations in which Asian capitalism is embedded. Eschewing talk of a uniform Asian miracle, the book shows that there existed complex precedents for

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429978685
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/08/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Robert Hefner

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

To what degree are there moral and organizational precedents for or against modern capitalist enterprise in East and Southeast Asia? Eleven articles address this question, noting the uneven popular participation in, and deep ethical arguments raised by, market growth. Rather than speaking of a uniform Chinese, Malay, or Vietnamese culture, the authors see Asian culture as pluralistic and contingent. Paper edition (unseen), $22.00. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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