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The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses

The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses

The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses
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ISBN-10:
0313308691
ISBN-13:
9780313308697
Pub. Date:
07/30/2001
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0313308691
ISBN-13:
9780313308697
Pub. Date:
07/30/2001
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses

The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses

Overview

The Chinese triangle of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan constitutes one of the most dynamic regions in the world economy. Since the late 1970s, these three societies have experienced increasing economic integration; however, studies aimed at analyzing and explaining this integration have often overlooked the very important role social institutions have played in the shaping of this process. To fill this gap, this book adopts a systematic institutional approach designed to examine the different patterns of institutions in the three countries and to discuss how such social institutions as the economy, gender, social networks, and the Chinese diaspora have exerted a profound impact on all three societies. The chapters, taken together, argue that different patterns of institutional configuration have led to divergent paths of development, and that this divergence will have significant implications on the prospects for Chinese national reunification in the twenty-first century.

The Introductory chapter provides a historical discussion on the origins and the transformation of the Chinese triangle during the second half of the twentieth century. The remainder of the volume is broken into four topics considered crucial for understanding the transformation of the Chinese triangle: economic transformation, gender, social networks, and the Chinese diaspora. As globalization impacts the Chinese triangle, studies that consider the issues from the perspective of social institutions will be increasingly important to understanding the area as it develops in the world economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313308697
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/30/2001
Series: Controversies in Science , #133
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Alvin Y. So is professor and head of the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His recent books include Hong Kong's Embattled Democracy and Asia's Environmental Movements.

Nan Lin is professor of sociology at Duke University. Tunghai University, Taiwan, received his MA from Syracuse University, and finished his PhD at Michigan State University in 1966. He has published many books and articles.

Dudley Poston is Samuel Rhea Gammon professor of liberal arts at Texas A & M University. He was the President of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association. He has published numerous books and articles on Chinese population.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Orgins and Transformation of the Chinese Triangle by Alvin Y. So
Economic Institutions
From Regional Integration to Export Competition? The Evolution of the Chinese Economic Triangle by Xiangming Chen
A Study of Confucian Entrepreneurs in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong by Tak Sing Cheung and Ambrose Y.C. King
Local Institutions and Property Rights Transformation: Regional Variations in Chinese Rural Reforms by Chih-Jou Jay Chen
Job Stress in the Era of Market Reforms: Manufacturing Workers in Urban Shanghai by Gina Lai
Gender
Cultural Construction of Labor Politics: Gender, Kinship, and Ethnicity in Shenzhen Workplace by Ngai Pun
Of Flesh and Blood: The Human Consequences of Economic Restructuring on Women Workers in Hong Kong by Chi-Kwan Ho
Institutions and Networks Constructing Gender Inequality in Manufacturing Factories: The Case of Taiwan's Export Processing by Ray-May Hsung and Esther Ngan-Ling Chow
Social Networks
Guanxi: A Conceptual Analysis by Nan Lin
Between Personal Ties and Organizational Imperative: The Formation of Exchange Networks among Hospitals by Ly-Yun Chang
A Comparative Study of Personal Networks in Two Chinese Societies by Danching Ruan
Overlapping Networks and Flexible Manufacturing: A Structural Analysis of Hong Kong-Based Garment Industry by Hon-Chu Leung
The Chinese Disapora
PRC Immigrants in the U.S.: A Demographic Profile and An Assessment of Their Integration in the Chinese-American Community by Fenggang Yang
Immigrant Economy in a Pacific Rim Context: Chinese Business in Los Angeles by Yen-Fen Tseng and Yu Zhou
Returban Migration among Chinese Immigrants in Toronto by Kumiko Shibuya, Eric Fong, Ming-Long Lam, and Clement So
Using Census Data to Conceptually Define the Chinese American Population by Dudley L. Poston. Jr., Runlong Huang, and Hong Dan
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