| Description |
1 online resource (x, 309 pages) |
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ConsumAsiaN book series |
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ConsumAsiaN book series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Editor's note; Introduction: Asia's Universal Providers; I Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs, Department Store Culture, and the State; 1 Sun Yatsen and the Department Store: an aspect of national reconstruction; 2 Wing On and the Kwok Brothers: a case study of pre-war Chinese entrepreneurs; 3 Personal Styles, Cultural Values, and Management: the Sincere and Wing On companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong 1900-1941; 4 Chinese Stores in Rural Australia; 5 New China's Flagship Emporium: The Beijing Wangfujing Department Store |
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II Visions of Modernism and Japanese Department Stores6 The Birth of the Japanese Department Store; 7 Seibu Department Store and Image Marketing: Japanese consumerism in the post-war period; 8 Something More: Japanese department stores' marketing of 'a meaningful human life'; III A Japanese Entrepreneur in Hong Kong and China; 9 The Yaohan Group: model or maverick among Japanese retailers in China?; 10 From Japanese Supermarket to Hong Kong Department Store; References; List of contributors; Index |
| Summary |
In this pioneering study of the development of the Asian department store, economists, anthropologists and historians examine various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking and consumerism in the expanding economies of Asia |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Department stores -- Asia
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International business enterprises -- Asia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
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Department stores
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International business enterprises
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Macpherson, Kerrie L., 1950-
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| ISBN |
9781136783081 |
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1136783083 |
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9781136783012 |
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1136783016 |
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