Trust and its limitations: a changing discourse on money during the People's Republic of China's reform period / Heike Holbig -- Singaporean Chinese doing business in China / Chan Kwok Bun and Tong Chee Kiong -- Networks and their uses in the Taiwanese society / David C. Schak -- In search of patrons: Chinese business networking and Malay political patronage in Malaysia / Edmund Terence Gomez -- Ethnic Chinese business people and the local society: the case of the Philippines / Liao Shaolian -- Myths and misperceptions of ethnic Chinese capitalism / Chan Kwok Bun and Ng Beoy Kui