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Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe
Daniel Chirot,Anthony Reid +1 more
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In this paper, Chirot et al. compare similarities and disparities between Chinese and Jews in the context of entrepreneurship, choice, and reaction to Prejudice among Chinese and Jewish.Abstract:
Acknowledgments Part One. Similarities and Disparities: an Introduction to the Comparison of Entrereneurial Minorities 1. Conflicting Identities and the Dangers of Communalism / Daniel Chirot 2. Entrepreneurial Minorities, Nationalism, and the State / Anthony Reid Part Two. Identity, Choice, and the Reaction to Prejudice among Chinese and Jews 3. Imagined Uncommunity: the Lookjin Middle Class and Thai Official Nationalism / Kasian Tejapira 4. "Pride and Prejudice" or "Sense and Sensibility"? How Reasonable was Anti-Semitism in Vienna, 1880-1939? / Steven Beller 5. Jewish Entrepreneurship and Identity under Capitalism and Socialism in Central Europe: The Unresolved Dilemmas of Hungarian Jewry / Victor Karady 6. Anti-Sinicism and Chinese Identity Options in the Philippines / Edgar Wickberg Part Three. The Modernization of Ethnic Perceptions and Conflicts 7. Anti-Sinicism in Java's New Order / Takashi Shiraishi 8. Middleman Minorities and Blood: Is There a Natural Economy of the Ritual Murder Accusation in Europe? / Hillel J. Kieval Part Four. Chinese Businesses in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Are There Parallels? 9. A Specific Idiom of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Sino-Malaysian Capital Accumulation in the Face of State Hostility / K. S. Jomo 10. Ethnicity and Capitalist Development: The Changing Role of the Chinese in Thailand / Gary G. Hamilton and Tony Waters 11. Strengths and Weaknesses of Minority Status for Southeast Asian Chinese at a TIme of Economic Growth and liberalization / Linda Y. C. Lim and L. A. Peter Gosling List of ContributorsIndexread more
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