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Contributions in sociology, 0084-9278 no. 133
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgment -- I Introduction: The Origins and Transformation of the Chinese -- Triangle -- Alvin Y. So -- PART I Economic Institutions -- 2 From Regional Integration to Export Competition? The Evolution -- of the Chinese Economic Triangle -- Xiangming Chen -- 3 A Study of Confucian Entrepreneurs in Mainland China, Taiwan, -- and Hong Kong -- Tak Sing Cheung and Ambrose Y. C. King -- 4 Local Institutions and Property Rights Transformation: Regional -- Variations in Chinese Rural Reforms -- Chih-Jou Jay Chen -- 5 Job Stress in the Era of Market Reforms: Manufacturing Workers -- in Urban Shanghai -- Gina Lai -- PART II Gender -- C 6 Cultural Construction of Labor Politics: Gender, Kinship, and -- Ethnicity in a Shenzhen Workplace -- Ngai Pun -- 7 Of Flesh and Blood: The Human Consequences of Economic -- Restructuring on Women Workers in Hong Kong -- Chi-Kwan Ho -- 8 Institutions and Networks Constructing Gender Inequality in -- Manufacturing Factories: The Case of Taiwan's Export Processing -- and Industrial Zones -- Ray-May Hsung and Esther Ngan-Ling Chow -- PART III Social Networks -- 9 Guanxi: A Conceptual Analysis -- Nan Lin -- 10 Between Personal Ties and Organizational Imperative: -- The Formation of Exchange Networks among Hospitals -- Ly-Yun Chang -- 11 A Comparative Study of Personal Networks in Two Chinese Societies -- Danching Ruan -- 12 Overlapping Networks and Flexible Manufacturing: -- A Structural Analysis of Hong Kong-Based Garment Industry -- Hon-Chu Leung -- PART IV The Chinese Diaspora -- 13 PRC Immigrants in the United States: A Demographic Profile and an -- Assessment of Their Integration in the Chinese American Community -- Fenggang Yang -- 14 Immigrant Economy in a Pacific Rim Context: Chinese Business -- in Los Angeles -- Yen-Fen Tseng and Yu Zhou -- 15 Return Migration among Chinese Immigrants in Toronto -- Kumiko Shibuya, Eric Fong, Ming-Long Lam, and Clement So -- 16 Using Census Data to Conceptually Define the Chinese American -- Population -- Dudley Poston, Runlong Huang, and Hong Dan -- Index -- About the Contributors. |
| General note | "Selection of papers presented at a conference organized by the North American Chinese Sociologists Association (NACSA) in Toronto in August 1997"--P. [vii]. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 00052121 |
| ISBN | 0313308691 (alk. paper) |
