Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941
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Chinese Business Networks
Chinese commercial influence in Kedah Penang
Chinese Community
Chinese Revenue Farmers
Chinese Towkays
colonial Malaya economy
community
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ethnic Chinese networks
farmers
farming
kuala
Kuala Muda
labour organisation history
Lim Family
Malay State
migration and diaspora studies
milling
muda
Opium Farm
Pawnbroking Business
Penang Chinese
PGSC
Prominent Chinese Families
Raja Muda
Resident Councillor
revenue
revenue farming
Revenue Farming System
rice
Rice Combine
Rice Milling
Siamese Suzerainty
Southeast Asian Chinese
Southeast Asian History
Southeast Asian state formation
Southeast Asian Transformation
states
system
Unfederated Malay States
Product details
- ISBN 9780415301763
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
