Table of Contents

Introduction.- Rise of the Red Capitalists: PRC Influence and the New Challenge of the Royalist-Chinese Business Alliance in Thailand.- Transnational Social Underpinnings of New Chinese Capitalism: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore.- The Development of Chinese Capitalism in Malaysia: the cases of H.S. Lee and Robert Kuok.- Politics, Policy, Culture and China:  The Growth of the Top Ethnic Chinese Businesses in the Philippines since the 1990s.- Ethnic Chinese Enterprises in Indonesia: A Case Study of West Kalimantan.- Political Economy of Guanxi: Thai Yunnanese Transnational Entrepreneurs in Chiang Mai City.- Chinese Capitalism in Cambodian Sociopolitical Contexts: Role of Ethnic Chinese in Cambodian Economy.- Guanxi and Post-Socialist Chinese Business in Pakse, Laos.- An Enquiry into the Nature of Chinese Capitalism and Business Strategies in Myanmar.- The  Rise and Revitalization of Ethnic Chinese Business in Vietnam.- Chinese State Capitalism and China’s Geo-economic Strategy in Southeast Asia.

About the Author

Yos Santasombat is Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, and Senior Research Scholar at the Thailand Research Fund. He is the author of numerous books, including the Impact of China’s Rise on the Mekong Region (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).