UID:
almafu_9959238781702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-138-36205-0
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1-134-41695-4
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1-280-05813-7
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0-203-41779-8
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1-134-41696-2
Serie:
Chinese worlds
Inhalt:
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 Chin
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Settings; Networking regional interactions, 1882 9; Family and state, 1889 95; An old framework and a new development, 1895 1905; Transition, 1905 9; Confrontation and accommodation, 1909 18; Another round of adjustment, 1918 28; A new profile of community and business, 1928 41; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-203-41984-7
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-30176-9
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203417799
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