LY-YUN CHANG is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica and adjunct professor of sociology at the National Taiwan University. She is the author of Medicine and Society (1996), the editor of Formosa Journal of Mental Health (since 1995), Taiwanese Society in 1990s (coauthor, 1997), Corporate Networks in Taiwan (1999) and Culture Industries in Taiwan (2000). She was the principal investigator of the “The Organization-Centered Society” (1996-1999), a large-scale project on the study of modern social structure based on a positional capital approach and the impersonal trust perspective on trust-building.
CHIH-JOU JAY CHEN is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is the author of Markets and Clientelism: The Transformation of Property Rights in Rural China (forthcoming) and “Local Institutions and the Transformation of Property Rights in Southern Fujian, ” in Jean Oi and Andrew Walder (eds.), Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (1999).
XIANGMING CHEN is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published extensively on China's integration with the global economy and China's regional and local development. His most recent article is “Both Glue and Lubricant: Transnational Ethnic Social Capital as a Source of Asia-Pacific Subregionalism, ” Policy Sciences 33 (2000). He is completing a book manuscript with the working title The Borderless Western Pacific Rim.
TAK SING CHEUNG is a professor in the department of sociology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interest is in the sociology of Con-
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