Encountering Chinese Networks
Title | Encountering Chinese Networks PDF eBook |
Author | Sherman Cochran |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2000-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520216253 |
The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937.
Encountering Chinese Networks
Title | Encountering Chinese Networks PDF eBook |
Author | Sherman Cochran |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520921894 |
The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937.
China Networks
Title | China Networks PDF eBook |
Author | Jens Damm |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 3643100361 |
Networks ranging from village level to transnational level have always played a crucial role in Chinese society. The contributors to this volume aim to trace the interaction between various networks which have existed from the 19th century to the present day. The articles deal with theoretical concepts, historical examples, such as non-state responses to the North China Famine (1876 - 1879), the role of missionaries in the modernization of China and disaster management, including recent inter-ethnic business competition in Hong Kong, Han settlers in Xinjiang, temple festivals in Macau and urban migrants' social networks in today's China. By drawing on new material and theoretical frameworks, these studies shed fresh light on the ways in which various forms of networks have shaped Chinese society, while at the same time questioning traditional and rigid perspectives of Chinese society based solely on networks and guanxi.
Large Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Title | Large Chinese State-Owned Enterprises PDF eBook |
Author | Y. Zhang |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2007-12-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 023059753X |
Based upon empirical research this book explores the process of China's corporatization reform and investigates whether the reform has altered the process of strategy formulation and implementation of large Chinese SOEs. What processes of ownership restructuring are taking place in the large SOEs and what impact do these changes have?
In Asian Waters
Title | In Asian Waters PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Tagliacozzo |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2022-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691235643 |
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the modern world in the process. Paying special attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and East Africa, the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal, and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to the spice trade, how the Indian Ocean became a “British lake” between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and how lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism. The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia, as Britain once did. A novel account showing how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in the present.
Chinese and Indian Business
Title | Chinese and Indian Business PDF eBook |
Author | Medha Malik Kudaisya |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2009-03-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9047426266 |
In recent years the phenomenal rise of the economies of China and India has led to a proliferation of academic studies. Much of the focus has been on economic performance, development strategies and the comparative advantage of the two economies. A comparative study of business as an agent of change has been lacking This volume brings together articles by leading scholars in the field of Chinese and Indian business who offer fresh perspectives on the historical antecedents of business in the two economies.
China's Last Empire
Title | China's Last Empire PDF eBook |
Author | William T. Rowe |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2012-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674735412 |
In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues—were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a “universal” empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan. Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of “small government” worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow. This original, thought-provoking history of China’s last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.