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Streetwise in Asia

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  • © 2005

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  1. Michael Backman
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Getting Streetwise

    1. Introduction: Getting Streetwise

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 1-7

    2. You’re Who? Names in Asia

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 8-17

  3. Places

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. China Triumphant

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 21-30

    3. China in Crisis

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 31-47

    4. Asia’s Big New Frontier: The Stans of Central Asia

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 48-56

    5. The Stans in Detail

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 57-76

    6. Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia’s Dark Cloud

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 77-88

    7. Guns for Hire: Australian Expatriates

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 89-97

    8. Nepal: From Democracy to Dictatorship

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 98-110

  4. Markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Outsourcing: It Need not be India

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 113-123

    3. Asia’s Art Market: For Investment and Connections

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 124-137

    4. Singapore, Malaysia, and the International Arms Industry

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 138-146

    5. Asia’s Great Casino Invasion

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 147-159

    6. Diamonds, Jains, and Jews

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 160-166

    7. From Starbucks to Coffee Bean: Asia’s Coffee Shop Revolution

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 167-175

    8. The Peculiar Market for Birds’ Nests

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 176-181

    9. Wheeling and Dealing in Asian Distressed Debt

      • Michael Backman
      Pages 182-190
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Bestselling author Michael Backman here draws upon a wealth of new examples, case studies and anecdotes to provide crucial insights into Asian business themes. This will provide a valuable guide for anybody whose business takes them into Asia and will enable readers to get to grips with Asian business and understand how Asia really works.

About the author

MICHAEL BACKMAN is an author, business analyst and columnist who specializes in Asian corporate practice. He has a reputation for hard-hitting, independent and highly detailed Asian business analysis. Singapore's Prime Minister cited him in his 1998 National Day Address as an expert on overseas Chinese and he has been described in the Australian Financial Review as "the brilliant writer on regional business strategies". He is the author of the international bestseller, Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia that was named by The Economist as one of the sixteen finest general non-fiction books published for the year. He writes a regular Asian business column for the The Age newspaper in Melbourne, and has authored numerous articles for The Times of London, International Herald Tribune, Asian Wall Street Journal and Far Eastern Economic Review. He has lived and worked in Asia.

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