Chinese Capitalisms

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Y.Chu PART I: CAPITALIST CHINA The 'Spirit' of Capitalism in China: Contemporary Meanings of Weber's Thought; C.Ku State Neo-Liberalism: The Chinese Road to Capitalism; Y.Chu& A.Y.So Post-revolution Transformations and the Re-emergence of Capitalism in China: Implications for the Internal Organization of Economic Activities; Y.Lin Workers in Post-Socialist China: Shattered Rice Bowls, Fragmented Subjectivities; J.Hudson, W.Hurst& C.Sorace PART II: CHINA'S CAPITALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Taiwan's Industrialisation: The Rise of a Demand-Responsive Economy; G.G.Hamilton& C.Kao Taishang: A Different Kind of Ethnic Chinese Business in Southeast Asia; H.M.Hsiao, H.Wang& I.Kung A Spell Breaker: The Dynamism of the Koo Family; T.C.Ho& W.Sun Capitalism in China? Comparative Perspectives; I.Szelényi Chinese Capitalisms: Concluding Thoughts on their Historical Emergence, Political Implications, and Unique Characteristics; Y.Chu Index

GARY G. HAMILTON is Professor of Sociology and of International Studies at the University of Washington, USATSAIMAN C. HO is Post-doctoral fellow in the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong KongHSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIAO is the Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS) and Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and Professor of Sociology, National Taiwan UniversityJAMES J. HUDSON is a PhD student in the Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, USAWILLIAM HURST is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin, USACHENG-SHU KAO is Professor of Sociology at Tunghai University in TaiwanCHUNG-HWA KU is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, and also the Director of the Center of Third Sector in the same universityI-CHUN KUNG is a sociologist and Professor of the Graduate Institute of Southeast Asian Studies at the National Chi NanUniversity, TaiwanYI-MIN LIN teaches at the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyALVIN Y. SO teaches at Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyCHRISTIAN SORACE is a PhD student in the Government Department in the University of Texas, Austin, USAWENBIN SUN is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, and is working at Central Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as Senior ResearcherIVÁN SZELÉNYI is William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Professor of Political Science at Yale University, USAHONG-ZEN WANG is Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Sociology at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan