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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.
List of contents
Introduction; I: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs, Department Store Culture, and the State; 1: Sun Yatsen and the Department Store; 2: Wing on and the Kwok Brothers; 3: Personal Styles, Cultural Values and Management; 4: Chinese Stores in Rural Australia *; 5: New China's Flagship Emporium; II: Visions of Modernism and Japanese Department Stores; 6: The Birth of the Japanese Department Store *; 7: Seibu Department Store and Image Marketing; 8: Something More; III: A Japanese Entrepreneur in Hong Kong and China; 9: The Yaohan Group; 10: From Japanese Supermarket to Hong Kong Department Store *
About the author
Kerrie L. MacPherson
Report
'A fascinating and most useful collection of articles on the history of the department store in Asia. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of the process of modernisation in Asia, both for what it tells us about changes in business and for what it says about changes in culture. It has much to say to students of management, as it does to anthropologists and historians.' - Carl A. Trocki, Asian Studies Association of Australia
