Hsiao Ping Huang

Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity (Chinese Worlds)

The book focuses on one ethnic community - the Chinese - and examines the variety of issues surrounding enterprise development from national and transnational perspectives, starting with the role played by Chinese entrepreneurs in the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Using empirical evidence and theoret...

Chinese Business in Southeast Asia

Presents empirical findings from different South-East Asian countries to demonstrate that Chinese businessmen employ a variety of strategies in their networking, entrepreneurship and organisational and firm development; and concludes that much more research is needed in order to provide a full under...

Rise of China: Beijing's Strategies and Implications for the Asia-Pacific (Politics in Asia)

Despite the growing internal social unrest and disparity of economic development, the People’s Republic of China is the third largest world economy and the second largest defense spender. Showing no clear signs of slowing down, China’s rise is seen as both an opportunity and a challenge by the major...

Chinese Middle Classes: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and China (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

The formation and characteristics of a nation’s middle class are shaped by historical context and the developmental path that has been followed. However, can the same be said of the ethnic Chinese middle classes in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Macao? Given the divergent political and economic exper...

Taiwan: A Newly Industrialized State

In Search of an East Asian Development Model