Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central EuropeDaniel Chirot, Anthony Reid Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the financial underpinnings of Chinese business to maintain themselves in power, and recently Chinese businesses have led the drive to economic modernization in Southeast Asia. But at the same time, they remain, as the Jews were, the quintessential “outsiders.” In some Southeast Asian countries they are targets of majority nationalist prejudices and suffer from discrimination, even when they are formally integrated into the nation. |
Contents
Conflicting Identities and the Dangers of Communalism | 3 |
Entrepreneurial Minorities Nationalism and the State | 33 |
Identity Choice and the Reaction to Prejudice among Chinese and Jews | 73 |
Imagined Uncommunity The Lookjin Middle Class and Thai Official Nationalism | 75 |
Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility? How Reasonable Was AntiSemitism in Vienna 18801939? | 99 |
Jewish Entrepreneurship and Identity under Capitalism and Socialism in Central Europe The Unresolved Dilemmas of Hungarian Jewry | 125 |
AntiSinicism and Chinese Identity Options in the Philippines | 153 |
The Modernization of Ethnic Perceptions and Conflicts | 185 |
Middleman Minorities and Blood Is There a Natural Economy of the Ritual Murder Accusation in Europe? | 208 |
Chinese Businesses in Contemporary Southeast Asia Are There Parallels? | 235 |
A Specific Idiom of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia SinoMalaysian Capital Accumulation in the Face of State Hostility | 237 |
Ethnicity and Capitalist Development The Changing Role of the Chinese in Thailand | 258 |
Strengths and Weaknesses of Minority Status for Southeast Asian Chinese at a Time of Economic Growth and Liberalization | 285 |
Contributors | 318 |
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AntiSinicism in Javas New Order | 187 |
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