Set within the context of ASEAN integration this book considers how Capitalism from China
interacts with the ASEAN Economic Community considering the issue from a variety of
sociological cultural and economic perspectives. It examines some of the creative strategies -
de-sinicization re-sinicization and re-balancing - employed by local Chinese communities and
ASEAN countries to cope with the pressures of Chinese capitalism. The book addresses the
phenomenon of Chinese ethnic economic migration particularly the social capital of being
Chinese in South East Asia as well as community building the interplay between domestic
politics and globalization and the rise of Chinese tourism related entrepreneurship.
