"The rise of the economic power of the ethnic Chinese, known also as overseas Chinese, Chinese overseas or Chinese diaspora, was a late 20th century phenomenon. It was partly the result of the rise of the Four Little Asian Dragons in the 1970s, and was speeded up by the tempo of globalization...

Wie wurde die Finanzkrise in Asien überwunden? Welche Veränderungen bewirkte sie gesellschaftlich, in Unternehmen und der Parteienlandschaft? Wie rüstet sich die japanische Wirtschaft für die Herausforderungen des neuen Jahrtausends? Welche Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft sind zu erwarten...

"In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism;...