Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era: Towards a Hybrid Capitalism - Paperback

by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (Author)

Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era examines the dynamic ways in which millions of ethinic Chinese in East and Southeast Asian economies organize their economic activities. It analyses how Chinese capitalism has changed under conditions of contemporary globalization and anticipates what the future holds for it. The book challenges the conventional notion of Chinese cpitalism as 'crony capitalism', based around kinship networks and untouched by globalization.

Author Biography

Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. He was a recipient of the Commonwealth Fellowship, the Fulbright Foreign Research Award, and Residency at the Rockfeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center . His previous publications include Transnational Corporations and Business Networks and Entrepreneurship and the Internationalization of Asian Firms