The Shop on High Street: At Home with Petite Capitalism

by Souchou Yao

Book Overview

This book tells the story of a Chinese family owned shophouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, through the lens of petite capitalism. Neo-Marxist in spirit, literary in tone, it recounts the triumph and despair of a family in its struggles against the financial frailty and structural limitations of a pervasive economic form of the Chinese diaspora: the small family business.

The daily realities of the Chinese shophouse are captured by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811520305
• ISBN13: 9789811520303
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"