Ethnic Economy in the Institutional Transformation: A case study of Vietnamese Chinese in Hochiminh City

• Main Authors: Tran Thi Phuong Lien, 陳氏芳蓮
• Other Authors: Hong-zen Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85881487526634811704

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 社會學系碩士班 === 99 === This paper discusses the changes of economic activities of ethnic Chinese in Ho Chi Minh City under different political regimes with different institutions. The thesis applied qualitative research methods with in-depth interviews, collected and analysed data from documents. The research result shows that under different social and political institutions, which are changed from French colonial period to the two different political systems during Vietnam War with the Communism in the North and the Capitalism in the South, and the socialist system carried out in the whole country after 1975, to the Doi Moi period after 1986, the Vietnamese Chinese conduct different economic activities in terms of business and trust in social relations. Before 1975, the Vietnamese Chinese traded heavily with the same ethnic group. The in-group business practices were changed after the institutional change after 1975, which pushed them to work more closely with other ethnic groups. The concept toward “trust” (Xinyong) in Vietnamese Chinese community is gradually changed in accordance with the changes of social and political institutions.