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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction Chi-cheung Choi, Takashi Oishi and Tomoko Shiroyama Part 1: Businesses and Relationships: Networking by Chinese and Indian Merchants 1 Changing Approaches to Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship Hong Liu and Xin Fan 2 Hometown Connections and Chaozhou Business Networks: A Case Study of Kin Tye Lung, 1850–1950 Chi-cheung Choi 3 Overseas Chinese Remittances in the Mid-Twentieth Century Tomoko Shiroyama 4 Family, Caste, and Beyond: The Business History of Salt Merchants in Bengal, c. 1780–1840 Sayako Kanda Part 2: Empires, States, and Networks: The Formation of the Asian Regional Economy Section 1: The British EmpireSection 1 5 Indian Merchant Networks and the British Empire: Instrumentality and Agency in a Global Imperial Context Claude Markovits 6 Bringing a Local Towns into the Global Economy: The Role of Nattukottai Chettiyars on the Malay Peninsula Tsukasa Mizushima 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” Takashi Oishi Section 2: Japan and Its Colonies 8 The Asian Merchants’ Networks and Japan’s Trade Recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930s Naoto Kagotani 9 Culture, Market, and State Power: Taiwanese Investment in Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 Man-houng Lin 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 Laixing Chen 11 Chinese Migration in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 Takako Ueda Conclusion
