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Chinese and Indian merchants in modern Asia [electronic resource] : networking businesses and formation of regional economy / edited by Choi Chi-cheung, Takashi Oishi, Tomoko Shiroyama

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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1 online resource
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Cai, Zhixiang, Oishi, Takashi (Professor of international relations), and Shiroyama, Tomoko, 1965-
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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"--
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9789004408609 (ebook)
9789004408586 (hardback ; alk. paper)
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