Chinese southern diaspora studies_Issue 1 (for Volume 1)
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1
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2007
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1834-609X
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Editior's Introduction [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 1, 2007]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2007) Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li; Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li
Another "Mediterranean" in Southeast Asia
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2007) Lombard, Denys; Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li
Southeast Asia, long known as an intermediate zone between the ancient
civilisations of China and India, is also an area that scholars have long portrayed as
historically subject to influences coming from its west, beginning with Indianisation,
then islamisation and finally westernisation. However, this article argues that it
would be far more insightful, and historically more accurate for the last several
centuries at least, to treat Southeast Asia and southern China as part of one region,
in the same way that Braudel approached the history of the Mediterranean.
"Go West" in Cochinchina: Chinese and Vietnamese Illicit Activities in the Transbassac (c. 1860 - 1920s)
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2007) Engelbert, Thomas; Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li
Illicit activity was endemic in several coastal areas of pre-modern Vietnam. This article
focuses on one such region, the west or Transbassac area of modern South Vietnam
and its extended coastline from the Mekong Delta to Cambodian Kampot and Kompong
Som and Siamese Trat. Chinese who settled here operated in both legal and illicit
economies, as farmers and traders as well as smugglers, bandits, and pirates. This
article discusses the geo-political factors that encouraged illicit activities, and outlines
the historical circumstances that shaped local peoples into various economic, social,
religious or political movements or organizations, including into Chinese and Vietnamese secret societies. Despite increasing colonial administrative penetration, many
of these factors endured and ensured similar activities returned whenever circumstances changed, like during the First Indochina War.
Chinese Rice Trade and Shipping from the North Vietnamese Port of Hải Phòng
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2007) Mart©nez, Julia; Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li
This overview of Chinese trade in northern Vietnam explores the role of the Chinese
rice traders there, especially in H?i Ph©ng, and their connections with Hong Kong and
southern China, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows they were
never mere colonial middlemen but economic actors with ties to German and English
business interests as well as to the French. The article traces what various primary
sources can tell us of their community and business history, as well as revealing the
intricate business ties of Chinese rice exporters in colonial H?i Ph©ng with German
shipping companies, up until World War One
Chinese Enterprise and Malay Power: Nineteenth-Century Central Malaya from a Regional Perspective
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2007) King, Philip; Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li
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