{"product_id":"chinese-and-indian-merchants-in-modern-asia-networking-businesses-and-formation-of-regional-economy-9789004408586","title":"Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and Formation of Regional Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210780729687,"sku":"9789004408586","price":184.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-and-indian-merchants-in-modern-asia-networking-businesses-and-formation-of-regional-economy-9789004408586","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}