Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415301763)

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Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang

$265.00

Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang

$265.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Wu Xiao An
ISBN-10: 0415301769
ISBN-13: 9780415301763
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2003
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.46w x 0.77d

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Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1523
By Wu Xiao An
By Wu Xiao An
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Wu Xiao An received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. He held a lectureship at Xiamen University (1991-93) and was awarded fellowships at the University of Amsterdam (1993-99), The National University of Singapore (2000-1) and Kyoto University (2002).
His research interests include the modern history of Southeast Asia and the Chinese overseas.

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