Author: Pui-tak LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hong Kong (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
香港史硏究書目題解
Author: Pui-tak LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hong Kong (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Daily Report
Author: Chinese Big Business in the Philippines
Author: Theresa C. CariñoPublisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A study of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry. The author begins with the organization's founding in 1954 and traces its development, focusing on the leadership. She also examines challenges to the survival of the Federation that have arisen from the dynamism of local politics, the increasing social integration of the ethnic Chinese community, and economic globalization. She ultimately uses the Federation as a case study to explore the problem of political leadership in the business community. Times Academic Press is in Singapore; distributed in the US is by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Author: Social Change and the Chinese in Singapore
Author: Lim Keak ChengPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Sojourners and Settlers
Author: Clarence E. GlickPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824882407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Essential Outsiders
Author: Daniel ChirotPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295800267
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the financial underpinnings of Chinese business to maintain themselves in power, and recently Chinese businesses have led the drive to economic modernization in Southeast Asia. But at the same time, they remain, as the Jews were, the quintessential “outsiders.” In some Southeast Asian countries they are targets of majority nationalist prejudices and suffer from discrimination, even when they are formally integrated into the nation. The essays in this book explore the reasons why the Jews in Central Europe and the Chinese in Southeast Asia have been both successful and stigmatized. Their careful scholarship and measured tone contribute to a balanced view of the subject and introduce a historical depth and comparative perspective that have generally been lacking in past discussions. Those who want to understand contemporary Southeast Asian and the legacy of the Jewish experience in Central Europe will gain new insights from the book.
A Chronicle of One Hundred & Fifty Years
Author: Joseph Bucklin BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York. Chamber of commerce of the state of New York
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The International Who's Who
Author: Gale GroupPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781857430219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
This source of biographical information on the foremost men and women in the world today contains 20, 000 detailed biographies, each of which includes nationality, date and place of birth, career history and present position, honours, awards, leisure interests, current address and telephone number.