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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.
List of contents
Introduction.- Rise of the Red Capitalists: PRC Influence and the New Challenge of the Royalist-Chinese Business Alliance in Thailand.- Transnational Social Underpinnings of New Chinese Capitalism: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore.- The Development of Chinese Capitalism in Malaysia: the cases of H.S. Lee and Robert Kuok.- Politics, Policy, Culture and China: The Growth of the Top Ethnic Chinese Businesses in the Philippines since the 1990s.- Ethnic Chinese Enterprises in Indonesia: A Case Study of West Kalimantan.- Political Economy of Guanxi: Thai Yunnanese Transnational Entrepreneurs in Chiang Mai City.- Chinese Capitalism in Cambodian Sociopolitical Contexts: Role of Ethnic Chinese in Cambodian Economy.- Guanxi and Post-Socialist Chinese Business in Pakse, Laos.- An Enquiry into the Nature of Chinese Capitalism and Business Strategies in Myanmar.- The Rise and Revitalization of Ethnic Chinese Business in Vietnam.- Chinese State Capitalism and China's Geo-economic Strategy in Southeast Asia.
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
