Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: uses and abuses of chinese business history and methodology

R. Ampalavanar Brown

Part I Background

2 Critical reflections on "Chinese capitalism" as a paradigm

Arif Dirlik

3 The spiritual heritage of Chinese capitalism: recent trends in the historiography of chinese enterprise management

Tim Wright

Part II Fammily and lineage

4 Competition among brothers: the Kin Tye Lung Company and its associate companies

Choi Chi--cheung

5 The lineage as business company: patronage versus law in the development of chinese business

David Faure

6 The chinese family firm: a model

Siu--lun Wong

7 Family management and family division in contemporary rural China

Myron L. Cohen

8 Family business reassessed: corporate structure and late--starting industralization in Thailand

Akira Suehiro

9 Chinese kinship, marriage strategies, and social mobility in late nineteenth--and early twentieth--century Siam

Jennifer W. Cushman

10 The institutional foundations of Chinese business: the family firm in Taiwan

Gary G. Hamilton

Kao Cheng--shu

Part III Chinese business organization: major changes, from family business to corporations, Chinese corporate behaviour

11 Business activities of a small Chinese merchant

Wolfram Eberhard

12 The organizational structure of the traditional Chinese firm and its modern reform

Wellington K. K. Chan

13 A small factory in Hong Kong: some aspects of its internal organization

Barbara E. Ward

14 The Salim group in Indonesia: the development and behaviour of the largest conglomerate in Southeast Asia

Yuri Sato

15 The emergence of a capitalist class: Chinese--owned capital

Richard Robison

16 The materialization of the Southeast Asian enterpreneur

Ruth McVey

17 The Wing On Company in Hong Kong and Shanghai: a case study of modern overseas Chinese enterprise, 1907--1949

Yen Ching--hwang

18 The Second Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Plant

William A. Byrd

19 Understanding and practice of "new business" in nineteenth--century China

Pui Tak Lee

20 Chinese enterpreneurship and economic development

Sui--lun Wong

Part I Finance, investment and capital markets

1 Capital accumulation and investment strategies in early modern China: the case of Furong salt yard

Madeleine Zelin

2 Sources of capital for modern industrial enterprises in late Ch'ing China

Wellington K. K. Chan

3 Finance in Ningpo: the ch'ien chuang, 1750--1880

Susan Mann Jones

4 The politics of finance in Thai economic development

Richard Doner

Daniel Unger

5 The Sanghai stock market: an institutional overview

Ellen Hertz

6 Chinese business and banking in South--East Asia since 1870

Raj Brown

7 Capital formation and accumulation of Chinese industrial enterprises in the Republican period: the case of Liu Hongsheng's Shanghai Portland Cement Works Company Ltd, 1920--1937

Kai Yiu Chan

Part II Accounting traditions

8 Commercial bookkeeping in Ch'ing China and the West: a preliminary assessment

Robert P. Gardella

9 Squaring accounts: commercial bookkeeping methods and capital rationalism in late Qing and Republican China

Robert P. Gardella

Part III Institutions in Chinese business: guilds, hui, to chambers of commerce

10 Chinese merchants guilds: an historical enquiry

Kwang--Ching Liu

11 From guild to interest group: the transformation of public and private in late Qing China

Joseph Fewsmith

12 Coping with transaction costs: the case of merchant associations in the Ch'ing period

Fu--mei Chen

Ramon H. Myers

Part IV The comprador system

13 The rise and fall of the comprador

Yen--p'ing Hao

14 A study of the legal status of the compradors during the 1880s: with special reference to the three civil cases between David Sassoon Sons & Co. and their compradors, 1884--1887

Motono Eiichi

Part V Chinese networks

15 Kuan--hsi and network building: a sociological interpretation

Ambrose Yeo--chi King

16 Nineteenth--century Chinese merchant associations: conspiracy or combination? The case of the Swatow Opium Guild

Gary G. Hamilton

17 The Ningpo pang and financial power at Shanghai

Susan Mann Jones

18 Weak organizations and strong linkages: managerial ideology and Chinese family business networks

S. Gordon Redding

19 "Personal trust" in the large businesses in Taiwan: a traditional foundation for contemporary economic activities

Kao Cheng--shu

20 The role of personal networks in the making of Taiwan's guanxiqiye (related enterprises)

Ichiro Numazaki

21 Chinese business networking and the Pacific Rim: the family firm's roles past and present

Wellington K. K. Chan

22 Brokers as entrepreneurs in presocialist China