essay
Doing business in Lukang
Studies in Chinese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1978 • Pages: 291-320, 363-364
By: DeGlopper, Donald R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
De Glopper provides here an interpretive analysis of Taiwanese business practices in the town of Lukang. The informal mechanisms of local economic exchange -- particularly with regard to wholesaling and retailing activity -- are related to fundamental notions of trust, kin relations, and to the town's position within the larger national economy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Production and supply
- Mercantile business
- Retail marketing
- Credit
- Community structure
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lukang city, Changhua hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald R. DeGlopper
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese