From the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, changes in mass media, transportation, and communication technologies provided unprecedented opportunities for the entrepreneurially minded in China and Southeast Asia. The Business of Culture examines the rise of these “cultural entrepreneurs,” Chinese businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by inves...(展开全部)

In this book, Sherman Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of cultural globalization. He moves beyond traditional debates over Western influence on non-Western cultures to examine the points where Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese-owned businesses interacted with consumers. Focusing on the marketing of medicine, he shows how Chinese construc...(展开全部)

In this book, Sherman Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of cultural globalization. He moves beyond traditional debates over Western influence on non-Western cultures to examine the points where Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese-owned businesses interacted with consumers. Focusing on the marketing of medicine, he shows how Chinese construc...(展开全部)

书稿原作者为贝尼特·肯珀斯，翻译稿由广西文物保护与考古研究所研究员、二级教授谢光茂提供。 谢光茂，广西文物保护与考古研究所研究员、二级教授。1985年毕业于厦门大学考古学专业。曾主持多项重要考古发掘，其中，2002年主持的广西革新桥新石器时代遗址发掘被评为当年“中国十大考古新发现”。在国内外发表学术论文、报告等60余篇，出版著作（含译著）9种。曾应邀到美、法、德、俄、日、韩等十多个国家和地区参加国际学术会议或进行学术访问。现为广西文物保护与考古研究所信息资料研究室主任，广西师范大学兼职教授、硕士研究生导师。

书稿原作者为贝尼特·肯珀斯，翻译稿由广西文物保护与考古研究所研究员、二级教授谢光茂提供。 谢光茂，广西文物保护与考古研究所研究员、二级教授。1985年毕业于厦门大学考古学专业。曾主持多项重要考古发掘，其中，2002年主持的广西革新桥新石器时代遗址发掘被评为当年“中国十大考古新发现”。在国内外发表学术论文、报告等60余篇，出版著作（含译著）9种。曾应邀到美、法、德、俄、日、韩等十多个国家和地区参加国际学术会议或进行学术访问。现为广西文物保护与考古研究所信息资料研究室主任，广西师范大学兼职教授、硕士研究生导师。

Spanning the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries and examining maritime trading relations, political interactions, overland Chinese expansion and Chinese commerce in Southeast Asia, this book will appeal to historians of China and Southeast Asia.

Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic "world-system." The anthropological experience in this region has been varied. Japanese anthropology developed early, and ran...(展开全部)

In this timely work, Scott Kennedy documents the rising influence of business, both Chinese and foreign, on national public policy in China. China's shift to a market economy has made businesses more sensitive to their bottom line and has seen the passage of thousands of laws and regulations that directly affect firms' success. Companies have become involved in a tug of war wit...(展开全部)

In this timely work, Scott Kennedy documents the rising influence of business, both Chinese and foreign, on national public policy in China. China's shift to a market economy has made businesses more sensitive to their bottom line and has seen the passage of thousands of laws and regulations that directly affect firms' success. Companies have become involved in a tug of war w...(展开全部)

This original and compelling book demonstrates that the fear of food shortages explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society. Using lower Burma and Vietnam as examples, Scott shows how the transformations of the colonial era systematically violated the peasants' "Moral Economy" and created a situation of potential rebellion.