Culture and economy : the shaping of capitalism in eastern Asia / edited by Timothy Brook and Hy V. Luong - First paperback edition - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1999 - viii, 301 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.

Introduction: culture and economy in a postcolonial world / Timothy Brook and Hy V. Luong -- Profit and righteousness in Chinese economic culture / Timothy Brook -- Chinese understandings of economic change: from agrarian empire to industrial society / R. Bin Wong -- The struggle to rethink the Vietnamese state in the era of market economics / Alexander Woodside -- Religious correctness and the place of Islam in Malaysia's economic policies / Judith Nagata -- The mutual constitution of Confucianism and capitalism in South Korea / Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim -- Confucian values and contemporary economic development in Korea / Tae-Kyu Park -- Business linkages and Chinese entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia / Farid Harianto -- Robert Kuok and the Chinese business network in Eastern Asia: a study in Sino-capitalism / Heng Pek Koon -- Capitalism and noncapitalist ideologies in the structure of Northern Vietnamese ceramics enterprises / Hy V. Luong -- Gender and capital accumulation in Chinese village enterprises / Ellen R. Judd -- Recycled labor systems: personal connections in the recruitment of labor in China / Diana Lary -- Foreign investment or foreign exploitation: women workers and unionization in a Korean free export zone / Seung-kyung Kim.

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Capitalism--East Asia
Capitalism--Southeast Asia
National characteristics


East Asia--Economic conditions
Southeast Asia--Economic conditions
East Asia--Social life and customs
Southeast Asia--Social life and customs

HC460.5 C968B 1999