Cover image: “Members of the Hong Kong Oriental Mercantile Community,” Arnold Wright, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China (London: Lloyd’s Greater Britain Pub. Co, 1908), p. 224.
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Names: Choi, Chi-cheung, editor. | Oishi, Takashi (Professor of international relations), editor. | Shiroyama, Tomoko, 1965- editor.
Title: Chinese and Indian merchants in modern Asia : networking businesses and formation of regional economy / edited by Chi-cheung Choi, Tomoko Shiroyama, Takashi Oishi.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: Brill’s series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective, 2212-1730 ; volume 8 | Summary: “In Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia , the contributors put together an important and lucid study of overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their impacts on the emerging global economy from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. In contrast to the conventional focus on the merchants’ networks per se, the chapters of this volume uncover their “networking,” the process in which they constructed and utilized linkages based on the shared concepts such as caste, kin alliances, and religion. By analyzing the interactions between the merchants and the European and Japanese empires, along with Asian states, this volume provides the critical insights into the configuration of the regional economic order in the past and at present”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: lccn 2019026925 (print) | lccn 2019026926 (ebook) | isbn9789004408586 (hardback ; alk. paper) | isbn 9789004408609 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Asia--Commerce--History. | Merchants, Foreign--Asia--History. | Business enterprises, Foreign--Asia--History. | Business networks--Asia--History.
Classification: lcc hf3752 .c45 2019 (print) | lcc hf3752 (ebook) | ddc 382.089/95105--dc23
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ISSN 2212-1730
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