Asian Department Stores

Kerrie L. MacPherson

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Routledge
27 January 1998

Microeconomics; Retail sector

Series: ConsumAsian Series

In this pioneering study of the development of the Asian department store, economists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians examine various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking and consumerism in the expanding economies of Asia. While focusing on the cultural histories of China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the overseas Chinese in Australia in the formation and shaping of Asia's 'universal providers', this book presents a unique perspective on

the way in which department stores such as Wing On, Sincere, Seibu and Yao-han were gradually transformed into multinational enterprises during the 20th century. This intriguing volume shows convincingly why the department store, originally a Western form of enterprise, became a predominately and distinctively Asian institution in the decades after World War Two. This interesting study explains why the great department stores of Japan and China are unsurpassed in world retailing today as arbiters of taste and fashion. Tom Havens, Prof. of History, University of California, Berkeley

By: Kerrie L. MacPherson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: No.4
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 750g
ISBN: 9780700703326
ISBN 10: 0700703322
Series: ConsumAsian Series
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 27 January 1998
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; I: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs, Department Store Culture, and the State; 1: Sun Yatsen and the Department Store; 2: Wing on and the Kwok Brothers; 3: Personal Styles, Cultural Values and Management; 4: Chinese Stores in Rural Australia *; 5: New China's Flagship Emporium; II: Visions of Modernism and Japanese Department Stores; 6: The Birth of the Japanese Department Store *; 7: Seibu Department Store and Image Marketing; 8: Something More; III: A Japanese Entrepreneur in Hong Kong and China; 9: The Yaohan Group; 10: From Japanese Supermarket to Hong Kong Department Store *

Kerrie L. MacPherson

Reviews for Asian Department Stores

'A fascinating and most useful collection of articles on the history of the department store in Asia. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of the process of modernisation in Asia, both for what it tells us about changes in business and for what it says about changes in culture. It has much to say to students of management, as it does to anthropologists and historians.' - Carl A. Trocki, Asian Studies Association of Australia