Qiaoxiang Ties: Interdisciplinary Approaches to 'Cultural Capitalism' in South China - Paperback

LEO DOUW is a lecturer in Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and the Free University Amsterdam. His research is concerned with the twentieth century intellectual history of China, on which he wrote his Ph.D. (1991), and with the impact of ethnic Chinese transnational investment on the society and politics of South China. He is a director of the HAS research programme on International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. MICHAEL R. GODLEY, who recently retired from Monash University, Australia, was trained in Chinese politics and Asian history. His publications include The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China (Cambridge University Press, 1981) and several dozen chapters, articles and essays. At present, Dr Godley is a visiting fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora at the ANU. CEN HUANG is currently a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden. Her research project is concerned with the structure and social organization of overseas Chinese invested enterprises in South China with a special focus on cultural aspects of transnational managers and migrant workers.