News from the Qiaoxiang Ties Programme
By Cen Huang and Leo Douw
The editorial work on a newly edited book titled 'Qiaoxiang Ties: Interdisciplinary Approaches to 'Cultural Capitalism' in South China' has been completed by Leo Douw, Cen Huang, and Michael Godley. It will be published by Kegan Paul International (London) in August 1999. This book will be the first volume in a series publications produced by the Qiaoxiang Ties Programme. Professor Wang Gungwu has written a preface for the book.Dr David Ip, University of Queensland, Australia, has completed a senior programme visiting fellowship from I January to 15 February 1999. He worked with Dr Leo Douw and Dr Cen Huang on the preparation for the programme's 1999 conference: Chinese Transnational Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Prosperity and Adversity: South China and Southeast Asia during the Twentieth Century. The conference will be held in conjunction with the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong on 26-27 August 1999. Dr Cen Huang presented a paper titled 'The Change of Cultural Identity through Ethnic Restaurant Menus' at the American Asian Society Annual Conference in Boston on 13 March 1999. She will also present a paper on 'Chinese Governmental Roles in Assisting Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Financial Crisis' at the Bamboo Network Conference: Challenges to Chinese Overseas in an Era of Financial Volatility in the Asia Pacific Region on 14-15 May 1999 in Sydney, Australia. Dr Cen Huang and Professor Zhuang Guotu have been successful in attracting a publication fund to publish the research findings of the Xiamen-IIAS joint project and the research papers presented at the international conference on Qiaoxiang Studies on 27-30 October 1998 in Jinjiang. The conference was organized by the RAS research partner Professor Zhuang Guotu and his research team. A set of three volumes will be published by the Fujian People's Press late this year.