Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Yos Santasombat, Kian Cheng Lee

   Pages 1-33

3. Rise of the Red Capitalists: PRC Influence and the New Challenge of the Royalist-Chinese Business Alliance in Thailand

   • Wasana Wongsurawat

   Pages 35-55

4. Transnational Social Underpinnings of New Chinese Capitalism: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore

   • Liu Hong, Ren Na

   Pages 57-83

5. The Development of Chinese Capitalism in Malaysia: The Cases of H.S. Lee and Robert Kuok

   • Danny Wong Tze Ken, Tan Miau Ing

   Pages 85-102

6. Politics, Policy, Culture and China: The Growth of the Top Ethnic Chinese Businesses in the Philippines Since the 1990s

   • Ellen Huang Palanca

   Pages 103-130

7. Ethnic Chinese Enterprises in Indonesia: A Case Study of West Kalimantan

   • Bien Chiang, Jean Chih-yin Cheng

   Pages 131-153

8. Political Economy of Guanxi: Thai Yunnanese Transnational Entrepreneurs in Chiang Mai City

   • Kian Cheng Lee

   Pages 155-179

9. Chinese Capitalism in Cambodian Sociopolitical Contexts: The Role of Ethnic Chinese in the Cambodian Economy

   • Touch Siphat

   Pages 181-205

10. Guanxi and Post-Socialist Chinese Business in Pakse, Laos

    • Wasana La-orngplew

    Pages 207-227

11. An Enquiry into the Nature of Chinese Capitalism and Business Strategies in Myanmar

    • Khine Tun

    Pages 229-255

12. The Rise and Revitalization of Ethnic Chinese Business in Vietnam

    • Nguyen Van Chinh

    Pages 257-276

13. Chinese State Capitalism and China’s Geo-economic Strategy in Southeast Asia

    • Hsing-Chou Sung

    Pages 277-301

14. Erratum to: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia

    • Yos Santasombat

    Pages E1-E1

15. Back Matter

    Pages 303-330

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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 as well 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.

• Chinese capitalism and Asian Migration
• Cultural norms and practices in Chinese business
• China's Hybrid Capitalism
• Integration of Chinese capitalism
• China and Global Economy
• Cultural, political and social norms in Chinese business

• Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  Yos Santasombat

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).

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