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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460443203321

Titolo

Essential outsiders [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese and Jews in the modern transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe / / edited by Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c1997

ISBN

0-295-80026-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Jackson School publications in international studies

Altri autori (Persone)

ChirotDaniel

ReidAnthony <1939->

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Chinese - Southeast Asia - History

Jews - Europe, Central - History

Electronic books.

Southeast Asia Ethnic relations

Southeast Asia History

Europe, Central Ethnic relations

Europe, Central History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Part One: Similarities and Disparities: An Introduction to the Comparison of Entrepreneurial Minorities ""; ""1. Conflicting Identities and the Dangers of Communalism / Daniel Chirot ""; ""2. Entrepreneurial Minorities, Nationalism, and the State / Anthony Reid ""; ""Part Two: Identity, Choice, and the Reaction to Prejudice among Chinese and Jews ""; ""3. Imagined Uncommunity: the ""Lookjin"" Middle Class and Thai Official Nationalism / Kasian Tejapira ""

""4. ""Pride and Prejudice"" or ""Sense and Sensibility""? How Reasonable Was Anti-Semitism in Vienna, 1880 - 1939? / Steven Beller """"5. Jewish Entrepreneurship and Identity under Capitalism and Socialism in Central Europe: The Unresolved Dilemmas of Hungarian Jewry / Victor Karady ""; ""6. Anti-Sinicism and Chinese Identity Options in the Philippines / Edgar Wickberg ""; ""Part Three: The Modernization of Ethnic Perceptions and Conflicts ""; ""7. Anti-Sinicism in Java's New



Order / Takashi Shiraishi ""

""8. Middleman Minorities and Blood: Is There a Natural Economy of the Ritual Murder Accusation in Europe? / Hillel J. Kieval """"Part Four: Chinese Businesses in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Are There Parallels? ""; ""9. A Specific Idiom of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Sino-Malaysian Capital Accumulation in the Face of State Hostility / K.S. Jomo ""; ""10. Ethniticity and Capitalist Development: The Changing Role of the Chinese in Thailand / Gary G. Hamilton and Tony Waters ""

""11. Strengths and Weaknesses of Minority Status for Southeast Asian Chinese at a Time of Economic Growth and Liberalization / Linda Y. C. Lim and L. A. Peter Gosling """"List of Contributors ""; ""Index ""