Book Review: Village Economy and Culture in Contemporary China

BAUMAN, ZYGMUNT (1998) Globalization: The Human Consequences. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

CHAN, KWOK BUN (2000) Chinese Business Networks: State, Economy, and Culture. Singapore: Prentice Hall.

DIRLIK, ARIF (1996) “Critical reflections on ‘Chinese capitalism’as a paradigm,” pp.17-38 in R. Ampalavanar Brown (ed.), Chinese Business Enterprise: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management.Vol.1. London: Routledge Kegan Paul.

HERRMANN-PILLATH, CARSTEN (1999) “Was ist und wie betriebt man wirtschaftskulturelle Transformationsforschung?” (What is research on business culture in the transformation process, and how do you do it?). Universität Witten/Herdecke, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Wittener Diskussionspapiere, Heft 40.

LIU, XIN (2000) In One’s Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-Reform Rural China. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

RUF, GREGORY A. (1998) Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press.

UNGER, JONATHAN and ANITA CHAN (1999) “Inheritors of the boom: private enterprise and the role of local government in a rural South China township.” China J., no. 42: 45-74.

WANG HUNING (1991) Dangdai Zhongguo cunluo jiazu wenhua—dui Zhongguo shehui xiandaihuade yi xiang tansuo (Lineage culture in the villages of contemporary China—an exploration of the modernization of Chinese society). Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe.

WANG MINGMING (1997) Cunluo shiyezhongde wenhua yu quanli. Min-Tai san cun wu lun (Culture and power in village perspective: five papers on three villages in Fujian and Taiwan). Beijing: Sanlian shudian.

WHYTE, MARTIN KING (1995) “The social roots of China’s economic development.” China Q., no. 144: 999-1019.

YAN, YUNXIANG (1996) “The culture of guanxi in a North China village.” China J., no. 35: 1-25.

YANG, MAYFAIR MEI-HUI (1994) Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press.

YEUNG, GODFREY (2001) “Foreign direct investment and investment environment in Dongguan municipality of southern China.” J. of Contemporary China 10, 26: 125-154.