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Unpacks the legacy of the Chinese diaspora through the pervasive economic form of the small family business
Examines Chinese petite capitalism by exploring issues not usually covered by other writers
Brilliantly intertwines economic analysis with ethnology
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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This book tells the story of a Chinese family owned shophouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, through the lens of petite capitalism. Neo-Marxist in spirit, literary in tone, it recounts the triumph and despair of a family in its struggles against the financial frailty and structural limitations of a pervasive economic form of the Chinese diaspora: the small family business.
The daily realities of the Chinese shophouse are captured by the art of ethnography and the author’s own memories. The book examines Chinese petite capitalism afresh by bringing into focus issues not usually covered by writers on the subject—the concept of petite capitalism, the architecture of the Asian shophouse, the Hakka kinship, ‘tiger parenting’ and Chinese childrearing, the culture of debt, family legacy, and Chinese inheritance.
The book reveals the business acumen for which the Chinese diaspora are renowned as part truth and part myth. Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’ haunts the small Chinese family business where hard work and individual efforts are helpless against the ever-evolving nature of capitalism.
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Researcher and Critic, Sydney, Australia
Souchou Yao
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Shop on High Street
Book Subtitle: At Home with Petite Capitalism
Authors: Souchou Yao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2031-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2030-3Published: 29 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2033-4Published: 29 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2031-0Published: 28 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 177
Topics: Asian Economics, Asian Politics, Ethnology