Russell Smyth

Rebecca French

Never before has research into the benefits and drawbacks of the Chinese migration to Prato in Tuscany been presented so comprehensively in English. The recent influx of Chinese to the longstanding textile manufacturing and wholesale businesses in Prato has stirred strong emotions in the host culture and among the new arrivals alike. The breadth of the coverage of this publication is demonstrated by the full range of perspectives focused on the economic and social dilemmas being experienced. A wide range of points of view are elucidated -- the concerns of the local commune, the factory labourers, the traders, economists, Italian nationalists, Italian bureaucrats, Chinese provincial government, demographers, urban planners, academics, community developers, industry analysts, cultural observers, labour market analysts, media commentators, social planners, students, and social geographers.

The Chinese in Prato

Living Outside the Walls

Marika Vicziany

This collection focuses on the role of entrepreneurship - both private and state - in propelling Asian economic growth in the five decades since the end of the Second World War. The volume places the familiar names of Asian business, such as Haier, Mitsubishi, Proton and Reliance, in a long term historical and policy context. At first, government policies created the conditions conducive to economic growth, but very rapidly the dynamism of local entrepreneurship took over and economic liberalisation emerged as the key policy instrument to unfetter local initiative: Maoist, Nehruvian and like policies have been superseded in Asia's rising giants. The 21st century is now being heralded as the 'Asian Century'. This book helps us to understand what has made this possible.

Business in Asia

Malcolm Warner

On Kit Tam

Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu

China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. Its greater economic integration with the rest of the world, especially since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has further accelerated its market-oriented economic reforms. China is now opening its protected markets and beginning to submit to the rule of international law. This ongoing transition and increasing participation in the world economy has resulted in significant changes in human resource management and social welfare practices in China's enterprises. The book examines the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world: state-owned enterprise reform, capital markets and financial reform, human resources and labour market reform, social welfare reform, and China's accession to the WTO and the growth of the private sector.

Russell Smyth

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