Overview
- Considers the contexts and circumstances that give rise to the emergence and transformation of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia
- Moves beyond cultural explanations and traits to focus on the process of evolution and dynamism of situated practices in business
- Based on field research from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This collection examines the historically and geographically specific form of economic organization of the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and how it has adapted to the different historical and socio-political contexts of Southeast Asian countries. Moving beyond cultural explanations and traits to focus on the process of evolution and dynamism of situated practices, it argues that Chinese Capitalism is rapidly becoming a form of ‘hybrid capitalism’ and embodies the interdependent of culturally and institutionally specific dynamics at local and regional level, evolving and adapting to different institutional contexts and politico-economic conditions in the host Asian economies. This text also explores the social organization and political economy of the so-called overseas Chinese by examining the changing dynamism of Chinese capitalism in relation to forces of globalization. Focusing on key actors, primarily Chinese entrepreneurs in their business practices, and situated practices aswell as cultural, political, social and economic factors under globalizing conditions, it provides providing a broad understanding without fixating or homogenizing Chinese capitalism, contributing to the understanding of the contexts that give rise to the emergence and transformation of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia.
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Yos Santasombat is Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, and Senior Research Scholar at the Thailand Research Fund. He is the author of numerous books, including the Impact of China’s Rise on the Mekong Region (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Book Subtitle: Cultures and Practices
Editors: Yos Santasombat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4696-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4695-7Published: 19 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5205-8Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4696-4Published: 04 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 330
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Asian Culture, Social Anthropology