Table Of ContentJACKSON SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS
IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
JACKSON SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS
IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Senator Henry M. Jackson was convinced that the study of the history, cultures,
political systems, and languages of the world's major regions was an essential prereq
uisite for wise decision-making in international relations. In recognition of his deep
commitment to higher education and advanced scholarship, this series of publica
tions has been established through the generous support of the Henry M. Jackson
Foundation, in cooperation with the Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies and the University of Washington Press.
The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left:
The Revolutions of 1989, edited by Daniel Chirot
Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International
Implications, 1945-1990, by Lowell Dittmer
Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State,
and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng,
by Jerome Silbergeld with Gong Jisui
The Found Generation: Chinese Communists
in Europe during the Twenties, by Marilyn Levine
Rules and Rights in the Middle East:
Democracy, Law, and Society, edited by Ellis Goldberg,
Resat Kasaba, and Joel S. Migdal
Can Europe Work? Germany and the
Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies,
edited by Stephen E. Hanson and Willfried Spohn
Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement:
A Study of Deng ZhoTlgxia (1894-1933),
by Daniel Y. K. Kwan
Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern
Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe,
edited by Daniel Chifot and Anthony Reid
Essential Outsiders
Chinese and Jews
in the Modern
Transformation
of Southeast Asia
and Central Europe
Edited by
Daniel Chirot
and
Anthony Reid
University of Washington Press
Seattle and London
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Essential outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the modern transformation
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Anthony Reid.
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ISBN 0-295-97613-6 (alk. paper)
1. Chinese-Asia, Southeastern-History. 2. Asia, Southeastern
Ethnic relations. 3. Asia, Southeastern-History. 4. Jews-
Europe, Central-History. 5. Europe, Central-Ethnic relations.
6. Europe, Central-History. I. Chirot, Daniel II. Reid.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
PART ONE
Similarities and Disparities: An Introduction
to the Comparison of Entrepreneurial Minorities
1 I Conflicting Identities and the Dangers of Communalism 3
DANIEL CHIROT
21 Entrepreneurial Minorities, Nationalism, and the State 33
ANTHONY REID
PART TWO
Identity. Choice, and the Reaction to Prejudice
among Chinese and Jews
31 Imagined Uncommunity: The Lookjin Middle Class
and Thai Official Nationalism 75
KASIAN TEJAPIRA
4 1 "Pride and Prejudice" or "Sense and Sensibility"? How
Reasonable Was Anti~Semitism in Vienna, 188o-1939? 99
STEVEN BELLER
5 I Jewish Entrepreneurship and Identity under Capitalism
and Socialism in Central Europe: The Unresolved Dilemmas
of Hungarian Jewry 125
VICTOR KARADY
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6 I Anti-Sinicism and Chinese Identity Options in the Philippines 153
EDGAR WICKBERG
PART THREE
The Modernization of Ethnic Perceptions and Conflicts
7 I Anti-Sinicism in Java's New Order 187
TAKASHI SHIRAISHI
8 I Middleman Minorities and Blood: Is There a Natural
Economy of the Ritual Murder Accusation in Europe? 208
HILLEL I. KIEVAL
PART FOUR
Chinese Businesses in Contemporary
Southeast Asia: Are There Parallels?
9 I A Specific Idiom of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia:
Sino-Malaysian Capital Accumulation in the Face of
State Hostility 237
K. S. IOMO
10 I Ethnicity and Capitalist Development: The Changing Role
of the Chinese in Thailand 258
GARY G. HAMILTON AND TONY WATERS
11 I Strengths and Weaknesses of Minority Status for
Southeast Asian Chinese at a Time of Economic Growth
and Liberalization 285
LINDA Y. C. LIM AND L. A. PETER GOSLING
List of Contributors 318
Index 321
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Social Science Research Coun
dl for funding the conference in La Jolla, California, that produced these
papers, and especially Toby Volkman, who was then the council's staff
person responsible for Southeast Asian studies. On the last morning of the
conference we were all awakened early in the morning by the January 1994
earthquake that jolted southern California and caused so much damage in
Los Angeles. This may have been a sign of how dangerous the ground on
which we were treading really is.
Elizabeth Perry and Timothy McDaniel attended this conference as com
mentators and provided many useful suggestions. Hillel Levine and Tan
Liok Ee also participated and added valuable insights and criticisms of the
papers. Robert Hefner's invaluable advice from afar made the entire project
possible.
Several anonymous reviewers contributed comments that we sometimes
took to heart. We are grateful to Eric Larsen for his editorial help.
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation helped fund the publication of this
volume, and the Department of Sociology at the University of California at
San Diego funded Daniel Chirot while he was working on the final revisions
of the manuscript.
Both of us would like to thank the participants at the conference, some of
whom came from very far away, and all of whom wrote and rewrote excel
lent papers. We certainly did not all agree, but we argued cordially and with
good results.
Finally, we would like to thank Naomi Pascal, the editor-in-chief at the
University of Washington Press, for her careful reading of the manuscript,
her understanding of its importance, and her patience.
DANIEL CHfROT AND ANTHONY REID
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PART ONE
Similarities and Disparities
An Introduction
to the Comparison
of Entrepreneurial Minorities
