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Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang
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Paperback. This book examines the role of Chinese family and business networks in the process of state formation in Malaya. Through an examination of the opium and rice trades, pawnbroking, labor, and the law, the author considers the crucial role played by wealth and power in state formation, and challenges accepted views of Chinese ethnicity and migration. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related legal and labour organization activities, were highly influential in the process of state formation in Malaya. It shows how Chinese family and business networks were flexible and dynamic, and were closely interlocked with economic and social structures, around which government, and states, developed. It considers the crucial role of wealth and power in the process of state formation, and challenges accepted views of Chinese ethnicity and migration.
This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related legal and labour organization activities, were highly influential in the process of state formation in Malaya. It shows how Chinese family and business networks were flexible and dynamic, and were closely interlocked with economic and social structures, around which government, and states, developed. It considers the crucial role of wealth and power in the process of state formation, and challenges accepted views of Chinese ethnicity and migration.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971694968
SKU
V9789971694968
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99-3
About An
Wu Xiao An is Professor of History at Peking University and Director of the Peking University's Center for the Study of Chinese Overseas.
Reviews for Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang
The richness of both the thematic approaches as well as the breadth of the source materials used will surely make this book compelling reading. Readers interested in colonial history, state formation, social change, family business networks, and legal institutional development will all find challenging views and interesting description. Moreover, Wu Xiao An has shown us convincingly that these diverse issues ... Read more