Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang (Chinese Worlds)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781134416950
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780203417799, 9780415301763, 9780415301763, 9781138362055, 9781138362055
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 05/09/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Wu Xiao An
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.