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This book examines the rise of Chinese capitalism and discusses its effects on both itself and its neighbours. The collection is comprised of sixteen previously published or forthcoming articles that combined provide historical, comparative and theoretically informed perspectives on the spread of Chinese capitalism.
This book examines the rise of Chinese capitalism and discusses its effects on both itself and its neighbours. The collection is comprised of sixteen previously published or forthcoming articles that combined provide historical, comparative and theoretically informed perspectives on the spread of Chinese capitalism.
Scholars of ancient metallurgy gain insights from individual
artifacts as well as from synthetic overviews because debates can
turn on details of particular objects from particular contexts.
Therefore, it is important for archaeometallurgical studies to
provide comprehensive catalogs that specify the attributes of
individual objects as well as contexts and the technical studies
undertaken on those objects. This fourth volume in the series is
devoted to presenting the metallurgical evidence from Ban Chiang,
Ban Tong, Ban Phak Top, and Don Klang in northeast Thailand in the
form of detailed catalogs organized by sites, periods, and artifact
types. All metal artifacts, metallic by-products, and crucibles
from the four-site study are included. A catalog of analyzed prills
is also included. The catalogs summarize all the contextual,
metric, and analytical data from metallographic, elemental, and
microhardness analyses. Illustrations and photomicrographs provide
visual evidence for the study collection. These kinds of detailed
catalogs form the raw material of technical and archaeological
interpretation, enabling comparisons with other collections as well
as allowing scholars to form their own conclusions independently of
the interpretations of the authors.
Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a
tributary to an increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. And
though President Trump has called for the end of "American
carnage"—the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs—domestic retailers
and merchandisers still willingly ship production overseas,
primarily to Taiwan. In this book, Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu
Kao show how Taiwanese businesspeople have played a tremendous,
unsung role in their nation's continuing ascent. From prominent
names like Pou Chen and Hon Hai to the owners of small and midsize
firms, Taiwan's contract manufacturers have become the world's most
sophisticated suppliers of consumer products the world over.
Drawing on over 30 years of research and more than 800 interviews,
Hamilton and Kao tell these industrialists' stories. The picture
that emerges is one of agile neo-capitalists, caught in the flux of
a rapidly changing landscape, who tirelessly endeavor to profit on
it. Making Money reveals its subjects to be at once producers of
economic globalization and its byproducts. While the future of
Taiwanese business is uncertain, the durability of demand-led
capitalism is not.
The foundation of archaeometallurgy is the study of excavated
assemblages of metals and related remains. This volume presents in
detail how the metals and such remains as crucibles excavated from
four sites in northeast Thailand have been studied to understand
the place of metal objects and technology in the ancient past of
this region. In addition to typological examination, hundreds of
technical analyses reveal the technological capabilities,
preferences, and styles of metal artifact manufacturers in this
part of Thailand. Detailed examination of contexts of recovery of
metal remains employing a "life history" approach indicates that
metal objects in those societies were used primarily in daily life
and, only occasionally, as grave goods. The most surprising find is
that casting of copper-base artifacts to final form took place at
all these village sites during the metal age period, indicating a
decentralized final production stage that may prove to be unusual
for metal age societies. These insights are made possible by
applying the methods and theories introduced in the first volume of
the suite of volumes that study the metal remains from Ban Chiang
in regional contest. Thai Archaeology Monograph Series, 2B
University Museum Monograph, 150
The economies of East and Southeast Asia continue to exhibit the
world's fastest growth rates. This rapid expansion is served by the
various business networks that dominate the economic landscape. Few
scholars have examined these networks and fewer yet have compared
and contrasted the striking regional differences found among them.
The studies in this volume are among the first to offer a
comparative viewpoint. The contributing authors are specialists
from Asia and the United States, who examine business networks in
Japan, South Korea and the Chinese dominated economies of Taiwan,
Hong Kong and Singapore. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted,
the economic issues are considered in their sociological,
organizational and political contexts.
Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a
tributary to an increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. And
though President Trump has called for the end of "American
carnage"—the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs—domestic retailers
and merchandisers still willingly ship production overseas,
primarily to Taiwan. In this book, Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu
Kao show how Taiwanese businesspeople have played a tremendous,
unsung role in their nation's continuing ascent. From prominent
names like Pou Chen and Hon Hai to the owners of small and midsize
firms, Taiwan's contract manufacturers have become the world's most
sophisticated suppliers of consumer products the world over.
Drawing on over 30 years of research and more than 800 interviews,
Hamilton and Kao tell these industrialists' stories. The picture
that emerges is one of agile neo-capitalists, caught in the flux of
a rapidly changing landscape, who tirelessly endeavor to profit on
it. Making Money reveals its subjects to be at once producers of
economic globalization and its byproducts. While the future of
Taiwanese business is uncertain, the durability of demand-led
capitalism is not.
The complex relationship between myths and music is here
investigated. Myths and stories offer a window onto medieval and
early modern musical culture. Far from merely offering material for
musical settings, authoritative tales from classical mythology,
ancient history and the Bible were treated as foundations for
musical knowledge. Such myths were cited in support of arguments
about the uses, effects, morality and preferred styles of music in
sources as diverse as theoretical treatises, defences or critiques
of music, art, sermons, educational literature and books of moral
conduct. Newly written literary stories too were believed capable
of moral instruction and influence, and were a medium through which
ideas about music could be both explored and transmitted. How
authors interpreted and weaved together these traditional stories,
or created their own, reveals much about changing attitudes across
the period. Looking beyond the well-known figure of Orpheus, this
collection explores the myriad stories that shaped not only musical
thought, but also its styles, techniques and practices. The essays
show that music itself performed and created knowledge in ways
parallel to myth, and worked in tandem with old and new tales to
construct social, political and philosophical views. This
relationship was not static, however; as the Enlightenment dawned,
the once authoritative gods became comic characters and myth became
a medium forridicule. Overall, the book provides a foundation for
exploring myth and story throughout medieval and early modern
culture, and facilitating further study into the Enlightenment and
beyond. KATHERINE BUTLER is a seniorlecturer in music at
Northumbria University; SAMANTHA BASSLER is a musicologist of
cultural studies, a teaching artist, and an adjunct professor in
the New York metropolitan area. Contributors: Jamie Apgar, Katie
Bank, Samantha Bassler, Katherine Butler, Elina G. Hamilton, Sigrid
Harris, Ljubica Ilic, Erica Levenson, John MacInnis, Patrick
McMahon, Aurora Faye Martinez, Jacomien Prins, Tim Shephard, Jason
Stoessel, Ferdia J. Stone-Davis, Amanda Eubanks Winkler.
This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist,
was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical
statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society.
Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese
audience, "From the Soil" describes the contrasting organizational
principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the
essential features of both. Fei shows how these unique features
reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of
people in these societies. This profound, challenging book is both
succinct and accessible. In its first complete English-language
edition, it is likely to have a wide impact on Western social
theorists. Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng's translation captures
Fei's jargonless, straightforward style of writing. Their
introduction describes Fei's education and career as a sociologist,
the fate of his writings on and off the Mainland, and the
sociological significance of his analysis. The translators'
epilogue highlights the social reforms for China that Fei drew from
his analysis and advocated in a companion text written in the same
period.
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