Chinese business networks : state, economy and culture / edited by Chan Kwok Bun.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

State, economy and culture: reflections on the Chinese business networks / Chan Kwok Bun -- Trust and its limitations: a changing discourse on money during the People's Republic of China's reform period / Heike Holbig -- Transaction cost, cultural values and Chinese business networks: an integrated approach / We Wei-ping -- Networks and guanxi: towards an informal integration through common business practices in greater China / François Gipouloux -- Singaporean Chinese doing business in China / Chan Kwok Bun and Tong Chee Kiong -- "Credentialism" versus "entrepreneurism": interplay and tensions between technocrats and entrepreneurs in the reform era / Li Cheng --Networks and their uses in the Taiwanese society / David C. Schak -- Hui: Chinese business in action / I-Chuan We-Beyens -- Chinese business enterprise as inter-family partnership: a comparison with the Japanese case / Ichiro Numazaki -- Political structures and Chinese business connections in the Malay world: a historical perspective / Robert Cribb -- The Chinese networks in Southeast Asia: past, present and future / Qiu Liben -- In search of patrons: Chinese business networking and Malay political patronage in Malaysia / Edmund Terence Gomez -- Ethnic Chinese business people and the local society: the case of the Philippines / Liao Shaolian -- The economic roles of the Southeast Asian Chinese: information gaps and research needs / Jamie Mackie -- Overseas Chinese networks: a reassessment / Peter S. Li -- Myths and misperceptions of ethnic Chinese capitalism / Chan Kwok Bun and Ng Beoy Kui.