In this pioneering study of the development of the Asian department store, economists, anthropologists and historians examine various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking and consumerism in the expanding economies of Asia.

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 *