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Full Record Check this checkbox to mark or unmark the current record AUTHOR Nakano, Yoshiko. TITLE Where there are Asians, there are rice cookers : how "national" went global via Hong Kong / Yoshiko Nakano. IMPRINT Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2009. DESCRIPTION 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. SUMMARY This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in the global marketplace, instead choosing to emphasize the collaborative approach adopted by one Japanese manufacturing giant and a Hong Kong entrepreneur. The book also highlights the role Hong Kong, as a free port, played in the rice cooker's globalization and describes how the city facilitated the transnational flow of Japanese appliances to Southeast Asia, China, and North America. SUBJECT Corporate reorganizations -- Japan. SUBJECT Economics -- Japan. SUBJECT Electric industries -- Japan -- Management. SUBJECT Electronic industry -- Japan. SUBJECT Industrial management -- Japan -- Case studies. SUBJECT Industrial management -- China -- Hong Kong -- Case studies. DISCIPLINE Business, Accounting and Financial Studies. DISCIPLINE Economics. ISBN 9789888028085. Location Call Number Status English Book Collection 658.852 NAK Available 在館 English Book Collection 658.852 NAK c.2 Closed Stack 閉架館藏