Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and Formation of Regional Economy

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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. Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and the Formation of a Regional Economy Copyright Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction Part 1: Businesses and Relationships: Networking by Chinese and Indian Merchants 1 Changing Approaches to Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship 2 Hometown Connections and Chaozhou Business Networks: a Case Study of Kin Tye Lung, 1850-1950 3 Overseas Chinese Remittances in the Mid-Twentieth Century 4 Family, Caste, and Beyond: the Business History of Salt Merchants in Bengal, c. 1780-1840 Part 2: Empires, States, and Networks: the Formation of the Asian Regional Economy Section 1: The British Empire 5 Indian Merchant Networks and the British Empire: Instrumentality and Agency in a Global Imperial Context 6 Bringing Local Towns into the Global Economy: the Role of Nattukottai Chettiyars on the Malay Peninsula 7 Comparative Perspectives on the Intraregional Networks of Indian Merchants: a Review of the Match Economy from the Perspective of the State and "Big Business" Section 2: Japan and Its Colonies 8 The Asian Merchants' Networks and Japan's Trade Recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930s 9 Culture, Market, and State Power: Taiwanese Investment in Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 Section 3: The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China 10 Structure and Flexibility in Chinese Merchant Networks: Chinese Chambers of Commerce Overseas in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 11 Chinese Migration in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945 Conclusion Index