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..., a community of Yunnan merchants established themselves in upper Burma, dispatched from China, where some would pass many years as agents for the home firm. In Corporate Conquests , C. Patterson Giersch seeks to forcefully insert two subfields of history into the center of our understanding of modern...

...Jonathan Brookfield Going Private in China: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform . Edited by Jean C. Oi . Stanford, Calif. : Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, distributed by the Brookings Institution Press , 2011 . xxiv, 295 pp. $28.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Thomas Timburg Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914–1947 . By Rajat K. Ray . New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 . xi, 384 pp. Primary Sources, Index. $15.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 178...

... of it. This is ironic in a high-tech, innovative society, but corporate Japan, they suggest, has hesitated to introduce such technology as extensively as overseas firms because they worry that it might erode their human network advantage. For all of these reasons, Adams et al. conclude that several sectors...

...Richard Beason Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future . By Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap . Cambridge : MIT Press , 2001 . 360 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1055 believe...

...Anthony D. Medrano Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone . By Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . xii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9781478022237. © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Grounded, rooted, and tangled...

...Jürgen Osterhammel Corporate Behaviour and Political Risk: Dutch Companies in China, 1903–1941 . By Frans-Paul van der Putten . Leiden : Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies , 2001 . vii , 287 pp. hfl 55 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Kathryn Ibata-Arens Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA, and the Transitional Economies . By Masahiko Aoki . translated By Stacey Jehlik . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 . xiii, 186 pp. $29.95...

...Maki Umemura Americanizing Japanese Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy and Volunteerism in American Communities . By Yukio Yotsumoto . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2010 . 146 pp. $32.00 (paper). Going Global: Culture, Gender, and Authority...

...David Desser Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club . By Anne Allison . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994 . xiii, 213 pp. $37.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK...

... Surveys in Research Corporation, Compilers. Directory of Selected Scientific Institutions in Mainland China . Hoover Institution Publication Series: 96. Published for the National Science Foundation by the Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University , Stanford, California , 1970 . XXII...

...Inderjit Singh The Rise of Business Corporations in India: 1851–1900 . By Radhe Shyam Rungta . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1970 . xviii, 332 pp. Note on Statistics, Glossary, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $16.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971...

...Alan Heston Problems of Wage Policy for Economic Development; With Special Reference to India . By Sheekant A. Palekar . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . xviii , 343 . Statistical Appendices. $14.50. The Theory and Working of State Corporations; With Special Reference...

...Linda Y. C. Lim Ownership and Control of the One Hundred Largest Corporations in Malaysia . By Lim Mah Hui . New York : Oxford University Press , 1981 . xvi, 190 pp. Tables, Charts, Diagrams. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $34.50. Inequality and Economic Development in Malaysia...

..., Glossaries, Indexes, n.p.l. The Dragon's Wings: The China National Aviation Corporation and the Development of Commercial Aviation in China . By William M. Leary, Jr . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1976 . xiii, 226 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index...

... at providing institutional support for the emergence of modern legal corporations. Indeed, it was a widespread belief among the Qing reformers of the period that “Modern industrial capitalism … demanded Western corporate structures to do business’ (Kirby 1995, 43). Kirby argued that after numerous revisions...

...P. Steven Sangren Abstract Emphasis on descent and kinship in analysis of traditional Chinese corporations, a legacy of structural-functional theory, mistakes the analyst's theoretical categories for native culture. In this paper, the author attempts to sort out some of the resulting conceptual...

...Andrea McElderry The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation . Vols I , II, and III. By Frank H. H. King . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 1988 , 1989 , 1988 . xl, 701 pp; xxxix, 720 pp.; xxxviii, 704 pp. $100.00 each. Copyright ©...