The Bamboo Network

The Bamboo Network
Author: Murray L. Weidenbaum
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: China
ISBN: 068482289X

Following in the tradition of generations of expatriate Chinese merchants, they began establishing small family businesses. Today, the authors show, these have expanded into conglomerate business empires. Entrusting corporate divisions almost exclusively to relatives, and dealing extensively with fellow expatriates, these entrepreneurs have formed close-knit and formidable business spheres throughout Southeast Asia - a "bamboo network."