The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China: An Emerging Economic Synergy

by C. Lever-Tracy, D. Ip, N. Tracy

Overview

The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that reform in China has allowed to flourish in its townships and villages. The synergy between these two derives from the ability of small non-bureaucratic actors on both sides to establish networks based on personal trust and reciprocity, producing a new kind of transformative development-from-below in which established Western and Japanese multinationals have little role.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333653340
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/06/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	337
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CONSTANCE LEVER-TRACY
DAVID IP
NOEL TRACY

Table of Contents

Preface - Introduction - PART 1: RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES - Chinese Diaspora Capitalism - China, Reforms and Opportunities - Towards a Synergy - Cobwebs Across the Divides - PART 2: INTO CHINA THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS - Introduction: The Sleepers - The Tycoons - Networking into China by Smaller Investors - Transnational Small and Medium Enterprise - PART 3: IMPACTS AND OUTCOMES - Introduction: Dependency and Development - Diaspora Tycoons and Development in China - Long Term Perspectives and Local Meshing - Ripples on a Pond - Diaspora Capitalists Come of Age - Labour and Capital - Conclusion - Index