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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part One. Similarities and Disparities: an Introduction to the Comparison of Entrereneurial 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. Ethnicity 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
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