Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers: Power and Control in a Hong Kong Megastore

by Heung Wah Wong

This book, the result of two years of fieldwork in the Hong Kong subsidiary of a Japanese supermarket, is a cross-cultural study within Asia by an Asian anthropologist. This intra-Asian perspective makes the author less susceptible to the exoticizing of Japanese society or Japanese forms of social organization as uniquely unique because, for him, much of it is familiar. In fact, rather than large generalizations about the cultural bases of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824822579
• ISBN13: 9780824822576
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"