Acknowledgments

PART ONE Similarities and Disparities: An Introduction to the Comparison of Entrepreneurial Minorities

1 Conflicting Identities and the Dangers of Communalism

DANIEL CHIROT

2 Entrepreneurial Minorities, Nationalism, and the State

ANTHONY REID

PART TWO Identity, Choice, and the Reaction to Prejudice among Chinese and Jews

3 Imagined Uncommunity: The Lookjin Middle Class and Thai Official Nationalism

KASIAN TEJAPIRA

4 "Pride and Prejudice" or "Sense and Sensibility"? How Reasonable Was Anti-Semitism in Vienna, 1880-1939?

STEVEN BELLER

5 Jewish Entrepreneurship and Identity under Capitalism and Socialism in Central Europe: The Unresolved Dilemmas of Hungarian Jewry

VICTOR KARADY

6 Anti-Sinicism and Chinese Identity Options in the Philippines

EDGAR WICKBERG

PART THREE The Modernization of Ethnic Perceptions and Conflicts

7 Anti-Sinicism in Java's New Order

TAKASHI SHIRAISHI

8 Middleman Minorities and Blood: Is There a Natural Economy of the Ritual Murder Accusation in Europe?

HILLEL J. KIEVAL

PART FOUR Chinese Businesses in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Are There Parallels?

9 A Specific Idiom of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Sino-Malaysian Capital Accumulation in the Face of State Hostility

K. S. JOMO

10 Ethnicity and Capitalist Development: The Changing Role of the Chinese in Thailand

GARY G. HAMILTON

TONY WATERS

11 Strengths and Weaknesses of Minority Status for Southeast Asian Chinese at a Time of Economic Growth and Liberalization

LINDA Y. C. LIM

L. A. PETER GOSLING

List of Contributors

Index