Chinese business in the making of a Malay state, 1882-1941
Wu, Xiao An · 2010
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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 organizational 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 governments and states developed. It considers the crucial role of wealth and power in the process of regional interaction, and challenges accepted views of Chinese ethnicity and migration."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 271
- ISBN
- 9789971694968
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