Coverage - assesses the role, characteristics and challenges of Chinese entrepreneurship and business networks

Topical - reveals that Chinese network capitalism is contingent upon time, place, institutional frameworks

Controversial - argues that explanatory approaches of Chinese economic behaviour which stress culture and ethnicity are too simplistic

Radical - dispels some of the (culturally biased) misperceptions about the business conduct of ethnic Chinese in East and Southeast Asia

Based on rich empirical data and a multi-disciplinary explanatory framework

Written by an international team of authors from a number of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, political science, economics and geography

Illustrates the challenges which the rapidly progressing integration of East and Southeast Asia's market cultures into the global market system pose for ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs, conglomerates and network ties