List of tables ..................................................... xi Notes on contributors ............................................ xiii Preface .......................................................... xvii Acknowledgements .................................................. xix 1 Producer services, social mobility and the state in Asia: Lessons from Western economies ...................................... 1 HEIDI DAHLES Part I The new economy: boosting new people or bolstering old ties? .................................................. 21 2 Networking for domination: The interconnectivity among business and government actors in the information technology industry of Hong Kong ................................... 23 YIN-WAH CHU 3 The status of non-banking financial companies in India: A case study from Ahmedabad, Gujarat ............................... 40 DINESH N. AWASTHI 4 Cyber gurus and social mobility in India's "Silicon Valley" ........ 51 SALIM LAKHA 5 Restructuring capitalist power in the Philippines: Elite consolidation and upward mobility in producer services ....... 64 MICHAEL PINCHES 6 Land investors during the property boom of the 1990s and the elite of Metro Cebu ........................................ 90 EDSEL E. SAJOR Part II Engineering a new middle class: Singapore and Malaysia ............................................... 109 7 Brokering change, changing brokers: The Chinese business elite and decolonization politics in Singapore, 1945-65 ........... 111 SIKKO VISSCHER 8 Social networks and modern management style: Pawnbroking business in Singapore ................................. 131 SELINA CHING CHAN 9 Establishing an enduring business: The Great Eastern-OCBC group ...................................... 146 LEE KAM HING 10 Local merchant shipping companies in Malaysia: Expansion and diversification ..................................... 171 LOH WEI LENG Part III Producer services in transitional economies .......................... 185 11 New entrepreneurs in reform China: Economic growth and social change in Taiyuan, Shanxi .............. 187 DAVID S.G. GOODMAN 12 Business services in transitional economies: The case of Russia ... 198 OLGA GRITSAI 13 Conclusion ........................................................ 209 OTTO VAN DEN MUIJZENBERG Bibliography ...................................................... 217 Index ............................................................. 236