Linking an Asian Transregional Commerce in Tea
Overseas Chinese Merchants in the Fujian-Singapore Trade, 1920-1960
Biographical note
Jason Lim, PhD (2007) in History and Asian Studies, University of Western Australia, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. His research interest includes the historical interactions between China and Southeast Asia.
Readership
All those interested in modern Chinese history, the history of the overseas Chinese and the trans-regional trade between East and Southeast Asia.
Reviews
"...the book is an important contribution and should be welcome to specialists in several areas of studies, especially to China and Southeast Asia business, and in Cold War studies."
Wu Xiao An, Peking University, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (2011)
Wu Xiao An, Peking University, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (2011)
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Anxi, Xiamen and the Fujian-Singapore Tea Trade
Chapter 2—Fujian Tea Production, 1920–1960
Chapter 3 – The Anxi Tea Merchants in Singapore
Chapter 4 – From National Product to Controlled Export, 1932–1947
Chapter 5 – Trade, the Cold War and Decolonisation, 1945–1960
Conclusion – The Overseas Chinese and the Inter-Regional Tea Trade
Chapter 1 – Anxi, Xiamen and the Fujian-Singapore Tea Trade
Chapter 2—Fujian Tea Production, 1920–1960
Chapter 3 – The Anxi Tea Merchants in Singapore
Chapter 4 – From National Product to Controlled Export, 1932–1947
Chapter 5 – Trade, the Cold War and Decolonisation, 1945–1960
Conclusion – The Overseas Chinese and the Inter-Regional Tea Trade
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