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The Kwik Hoo Tong Trading Society of Semarang, Java: A Chinese Business Network in Late Colonial Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2002

Peter Post
Peter Post
Affiliation:
The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam. Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Asia Bureau, Herengracht 380, 1016 CJ Amsterdam, Netherlands. p.post@oorlogsdoc.knaw.nl
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Abstract

The main argument of this article is that the middlemen paradigm which since the Second World War has come to dominate academic writings and popular perceptions of Chinese business in late colonial Indonesia is generally flawed, and has hindered the development of a more nuanced picture of the nature of Chinese economic activity in pre-war Southeast Asia.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 279 - 296
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© 2002 The National University of Singapore

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