Introduction: The Origins and Transformation of the Chinese Triangle / Alvin Y. So -- From Regional Integration to Export Competition? The Evolution of the Chinese Economic Triangle / Xiangming Chen -- A Study of Confucian Entrepreneurs in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong / Tak Sing Cheung and Ambrose Y.C. King -- Local Institutions and Property Rights Transformation: Regional Variations in Chinese Rural Reforms / Chih-Jou Jay Chen -- Job Stress in the Era of Market Reforms: Manufacturing Workers in Urban Shanghai / Gina Lai -- Cultural Construction of Labor Politics: Gender, Kinship, and Ethnicity in a Shenzhen Workplace / Ngai Pun -- Of Flesh and Blood: The Human Consequences of Economic Restructuring on Women Workers in Hong Kong / Chi-Kwan Ho -- Institutions and Networks Constructing Gender Inequality in Manufacturing Factories: The Case of Taiwan's Export Processing and Industrial Zones / Ray-May Hsung and Esther Ngan-Ling Chow -- Guanxi: A Conceptual Analysis / Nan Lin -- Between Personal Ties and Organizational Imperative: The Formation of Exchange Networks among Hospitals / Ly-Yun Chang -- A Comparative Study of Personal Networks in Two Chinese Societies / Danching Ruan -- Overlapping Networks and Flexible Manufacturing: A Structural Analysis of Hong Kong-Based Garment Industry / Hon-Chu Leung -- PRC Immigrants in the United States: A Demographic Profile and an Assessment of Their Integration in the Chinese American Community / Fenggang Yang -- Immigrant Economy in a Pacific Rim Context: Chinese Business in Los Angeles / Yen-Fen Tseng and Yu Zhou -- Return Migration among Chinese Immigrants in Toronto / Kumiko Shibuya, Eric Fong, Ming-Long Lam, and Clement So -- Using Census Data to Conceptually Define the Chinese American Population / Dudley Poston, Runlong Huang, and Hong Dan.