| Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang Contributor(s): An, Wu Xiao (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415301769 ISBN-13: 9780415301763 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
| Dewey: 959.5 |
| LCCN: 2002027540 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Chinese Worlds |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.46" W x 9.44" (1.10 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |