ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|87 pages
Chinese Capitalisms and Cultural Pluralism
chapter three|22 pages
Getting Rich Is Not So Glorious
Contrasting Perspectives on Prosperity Among Muslims and Han in China
part |74 pages
Part Two Indigenes and Chinese in Southeast Asia
chapter four|16 pages
Business Success Among Southeast Asian Chinese
The Role of Culture, Values, and Social Structures
chapter five|26 pages
Constituting Capitalist Culture
The Singapore Malay Problem and Entrepreneurship Reconsidered
part 3|114 pages
Southeast Asian Capitalisms
chapter seven|21 pages
Women Traders in Javanese Marketplaces
Ethnicity, Gender, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit
chapter nine|17 pages
Contingent Moralities
Social and Economic Investment in a Philippine Fishing Town
chapter eleven|25 pages
Engendered Entrepreneurship
Ideologies and Political-Economic Transformation in a Northern Vietnamese Center of Ceramics Production
