ABSTRACT
In this pioneering study of the development of the Asian department store, economists, anthropologists and historians examine various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking and consumerism in the expanding economies of Asia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|108 pages
Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs, Department Store Culture, and the State
chapter 2|19 pages
Wing on and the Kwok Brothers
A Case Study of Pre-War Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs
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chapter 3|24 pages
Personal Styles, Cultural Values and Management
The Sincere and Wing On Companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong, 1900–1941
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part II|92 pages
Visions of Modernism and Japanese Department Stores
chapter 7|29 pages
Seibu Department Store and Image Marketing
Japanese Consumerism in the Postwar Period
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part III|51 pages
A Japanese Entrepreneur in Hong Kong and China
