Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Kuo, Huei-Ying

Title Networks beyond Empires : Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor, 1914-1941
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2014

Copies

Description 1 online resource (356 pages)
Series Chinese Overseas
Chinese overseas.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Making of Chinese Overseas in the South Seas in Longue Durèe; Chapter 2 Chinese Overseas Bourgeoisie in the Emerging Anti-imperialist Nationalism; Chapter 3 The Patriotic 1930s: Chinese Overseas Bourgeoisie in Nationalist Wings; Chapter 4 Rescuing Businesses through Transnationalism; Chapter 5 Whose National Interests? Selling Chinese Goods along the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor; Chapter 6 United Chinese Identity among Divided Homeland Ties; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary In Networks beyond Empires, Kuo finds that Chinese speech-group ties were key to understanding diasporic businesses and nationalism. These transnational networks transformed the Hong Kong-Singapore corridor into a space autonomous from Chinese official nationalism and British as well as Japanese empires
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Business enterprises -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century
Business enterprises -- Singapore -- History -- 20th century
Chinese -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century
Chinese -- Singapore -- History -- 20th century
Merchants -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century
Merchants -- Singapore -- History -- 20th century
Business networks -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Business enterprises
Business networks
Chinese
Economic history
Merchants
Nationalism -- Economic aspects
SUBJECT Hong Kong (China) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Singapore -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Subject China -- Hong Kong
Singapore
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004281097
9004281096
1322128294
9781322128290
9004281088
9789004281080