Culture and economy : the shaping of capitalism in eastern Asia / edited by Timothy Brook and Hy V. Luong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Culture and Economy in a Postcolonial World / Timothy Brook and Hy V. Luong -- Profit and Righteousness in Chinese Economic Culture / Timothy Brook -- Chinese Understandings of Economic Change: From Agrarian Empire to Industrial Society / R. Bin Wong -- The Struggle to Rethink the Vietnamese State in the Era of Market Economics / Alexander Woodside -- Religious Correctness and the Place of Islam in Malaysia's Economic Policies / Judith Nagata -- The Mutual Constitution of Confucianism and Capitalism in South Korea / Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim -- Confucian Values and Contemporary Economic Development in Korea / Tae-Kyu Park -- Business Linkages and Chinese Entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia / Farid Harianto -- Robert Kuok and the Chinese Business Network in Eastern Asia: A Study in Sino-Capitalism / Heng Pek Koon -- Capitalism and Noncapitalist Ideologies in the Structure of Northern Vietnamese Ceramics Enterprises / Hy V. Luong --

Gender and Capital Accumulation in Chinese Village Enterprises / Ellen R. Judd -- Recycled Labor Systems: Personal Connections in the Recruitment of Labor in China / Diana Lary -- Foreign Investment or Foreign Exploitation: Women Workers and Unionization in a Korea Free Export Zone / Seung-kyung Kim.

In recent years, most of the economies of Eastern Asia have been absorbed into global capitalism. Capitalism has transformed these economies, but the process has not been one-way. The cultures of Eastern Asia have in turn shaped how capitalism organizes labor, capital, and markets, in ways that could not have been anticipated even ten years ago.

On the basis of rich empirical analyses of East and Southeast Asia, and with theoretical insights from different approaches in the social sciences, Culture and Economy addresses these issues in both macroscopic and microscopic terms. These careful case studies suggest that it is inevitable that Eastern Asia will shape, even remake, capitalism into a system of production and consumption beyond its original definition.