...Ronald J. Herring The Village Entrepreneur: Change Agents in India's Rural Development . By Wayne G. Broehl Jr . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1978 . x , 228 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Index. No price. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK...

... part of the book examines the practices of the iAgent model. Chapter 3 focuses on “market devices in the making and unmaking of entrepreneurs” (p. 130). The iAgent model is meant to empower poor women by turning them into social entrepreneurs. In practice, however, the young women and their families...

... The Filipino Manufacturing Entrepreneur: Agent and Product of Change . By John J. Carroll , S. J. Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1965 . xix, 230 , Tables, Appendices, Index. $5.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 376 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Thomas A. Timberg Small Business Entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe: Towards a Comparative Perspective . Edited by Mario Rutten and Carol Upadhya . New Delhi: Thousand Oaks, Calif. and London : Sage Publications , 1997 . 334 pp. $38.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Emigrants, Entrepreneurs, and Evil Spirits: Life in a Philippine Village . By Stephen Griffiths . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . x, 95 pp. $20.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Di Luo The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900–65 . Edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2015 . xiv, 329 pp. ISBN: 9780774827805 (cloth, also available...

...Guo-Quan Seng Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 . By Tom G. Hoogervorst . Ithaca, NY : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press , 2021 . xvii, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781501758232 . © 2024 Association for Asian...

...Roy F. Grow “Jumping into the Sea”: From Academics to Entrepreneurs in South China . By Xiuwu R. Liu . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2001 . ix , 197 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 707...

...Alka Patel Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era . By Claude Markovits . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . xii, 292 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The work under review collects...

...E. Paul Durrenberger Loggers, Monks, Students, and Entrepreneurs . By Bryan Hunsaker , Theodore Mayer , Barbara Griffiths , Robert Dayley , and Clark Neher . DeKalb, Il. : Center for Southeast Asian Studies , Northern Illinois University Occasional Paper No. 18. vi, 143 pp. $12.00...

...Seio Nakajima Allies of the State: China's Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change . By Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2010 . 232 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Thirty years...

...Kyeyoung Park Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965–1982 . By Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1988 . xii, 495 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 176 THE JOURNAL...

...Alka Patel Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era . By Claude Markovits . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . xii, 292 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 The work under review collects nine...

...Wellington K. K. Chan Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong . By Wong Siu-lun . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press . 1988 . xii, 244 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 921 complicated...

...John F. Richards Emporia, Commodities and Entrepreneurs in Asian Maritime Trade, C. 1400—1750 . Edited by Roderich Ptak and Dietmar Rothermund . Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1991 . The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750 . Edited...

...Thomas J. Bellows Beyond Silken Robes: Profiles of Selected Chinese Entrepreneurs in Singapore . Grace Loh and Lee Su Yin . Singapore : Times Academic Press , 1998 . iii, 97 pp. $25.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA...

...Joseph Fewsmith Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change . By Bruce J. Dickson . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . x, 187 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $23.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

... that characterize this particular form of capitalism and reviews some recent influential critiques of this system. Many observers have viewed the resurgence of the state-controlled economy as a shift away from policies more hospitable to both indigenous entrepreneurs and foreign capital in the 1980s and 1990s...

... 1964), and the impact of industrialization and economic development on the Ceylonese community and caste structure and the “emergence of a class of industrial entrepreneurs” (Evers 1964). In all these booklength studies traditional Sinhalese institutions and values are depicted as distintegrating under...