Contents -- From the Editor -- Authors' Biographies -- SPECIAL FOCUS: CHINESE CAPITALISMS (Guest Editor: Chu Yin-wah) -- Introduction: From Destitute to Xiao Kang (Well-Being), Maybe Da Guo (Great Nation): Explorations of Chinese Capitalisms and Capitalist Actions (Chu Yin-wah) -- Emerging Chinese Capitalism and its Theoretical and Global Signifi cance (Nan Lin) -- The "Spirit" of Capitalism in China: Contemporary Meanings of Weber's Thought (Ku Chung-hwa) -- Taiwan's Industrialisation: The Rise of a Demand-Responsive Economy (Gary G. Hamilton and Kao Cheng-shu) -- Taishang: A Different Kind of Ethnic Chinese Business in Southeast Asia (Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Kung I-Chun and Wang Hong-zen) -- Entrepreneurship and Risk: The Becoming of the Koo Business Dynasty (Ho Tsai-Man C. and Sun Wenbin) -- ARTICLES -- Family Resources and Educational Stratifi cation: The Case of Hong Kong, 1981-2001 (Wu Xiaogang) -- The Transnational Linkages of Chinese in Toronto (Eric Fong, Cao Xingshan, and Chen Wenhong) -- Rediscovering Chinese Society in the Socialist Era: Using the Past to Serve the Present (Jonathan Unger) -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies, by Gary G. Hamilton. London, New York: Routledge, 2006. 309pp. ISBN: 9-7804-1515-705-6 (Lin Yi-min) -- As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacifi c Rim, by Chen Xiangming. Lanham, M. D.: Rowman & Littlefi eld Publishers, 2005. 360pp. ISBN: 0-7425-0094-2 (Lui Tai-lok) -- Alternate Identities: The Chinese of Contemporary Thailand, edited by Tong Chee Kiong and Chan Kwok-bun. Singapore: Times Academic Press -- Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. 329pp. ISBN: 9-8121-0142-X (Marlane Guelden.

Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang (Chinese Worlds), by Wu Xiaoan. London, New York: Routledge-Curzon, 2003. 239pp. ISBN: 0-4153-0176-9 (Wang Cangbai) -- Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 1840's-1950's, edited by Chu Yik-yi Cindy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 209pp. ISBN: 2-0050-4343-3 (Paul Lococo Jr) -- Life is Elsewhere: Stories of the Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong (in Chinese), by Wang Cangbai. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2006. 306pp. ISBN: 9-6282-6947-X (Li Minghuan) -- Social Survey Research in Practice: Chinese Experience and Analysis (in Chinese), edited by Bian Yanjie, Li Lulu and Cai He. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2004. 262pp. ISBN: 0-1959-7492-1 (Ruan Danching) -- Childrearing Values in the United States and China: A Comparison of Belief Systems and Social Structure, by Xiao Hong. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. 161pp. ISBN: 0-275-97313-1 (Odalia M. H. Wong) -- Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage: Professional Practice in the Hong Kong Cultural Context, edited by Katherine P.H. Young and Anita Y. L. Fok. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. 299pp. ISBN: 9-6220v9741-3 (May Partridge) -- Notice to Contributors -- Notice to Subscribers.