"Proceedings of the colloquium, Amsterdam, 22-24 May 1995"--Added title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253).
Chineseness and Chinese capitalism. Critical reflections on 'Chinese capitalism' as paradigm / Arif Dirlik. Uses and abuses of Chinese business history and methodology / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. Chinese entrepreneurship and economic development / Siu-lun Wong. South China: the fragmentation of the transnational middle class / Leo Douw -- The dispersal, survival and creation of Chinese institutions. Footbinding, handspinning, and the modernization of little girls / Hill Gates. The power and limit of the private contract in Ming-Qing China and today / David Faure and Anthony Pang. God cults and their credit associations in Taiwan / Yingzhang Zhuang (Ying-chang Chuang). The 'New Feudalism': a problem for Sinologists / Arthur P. Wolf. The Shenzhen and Shanghai stock markets compared: a window onto changing strategies of reform / Ellen Hertz. The development of township enterprises in rural Fujian since the early 1980s / Shaolian Liao