Networks Beyond Empires

Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor, 1914-1941
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28108-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Chinese Overseas

In Networks beyond Empires, Kuo examines business and nationalist activities of the Chinese bourgeoisie in Hong Kong and Singapore between 1914 and 1941. The book argues that speech-group ties were key to understanding the intertwining relationship between business and nationalism.
Organization of transnational businesses and nationalist campaigns overlapped with the boundary of Chinese speech-group networks. Embedded in different political-economic contexts, these networks fostered different responses to the decline of the British power, the expansion of the Japanese empire, as well as the contested state building processes in China. Through negotiating with the imperialist powers and Chinese state-builders, Chinese bourgeoisie overseas contributed to the making of an automatic space of diasporic nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore corridor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuo, Huei-Ying

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Making of Chinese Overseas in the South Seas in Longue Durèe

2. Chinese Overseas Bourgeoisie in the Emerging Anti-imperialist Nationalism

3. The Patriotic 1930s: Chinese Overseas Bourgeoisie in Nationalist Wings

4. Rescuing Businesses through Transnationalism

5. Whose National Interests? Selling Chinese Goods along the Hong Kong–Singapore Corridor

6. United Chinese Identity among Divided Homeland Ties

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Huei-Ying Kuo, Ph. D. (2007) SUNY-Binghamton, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. She has published many articles on Chinese overseas, including Enterprise and Society, Singapore in Global History and Chinese History in Geographical Perspectives.