Linking an Asian Transregional Commerce in Tea

Overseas Chinese Merchants in the Fujian-Singapore Trade, 1920-1960
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18243-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1199 g

Reihe: Chinese Overseas

Current historical work on the international tea trade has focused on the Sino-British trade and the impact of capitalism and modern technology on tea production in India and Ceylon. These studies have overlooked the changes that were afoot in the Fujian tea industry and the problems with conducting the trade with the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Using the Fujian-Singapore trade as an illustration and drawing on Chinese-language archival materials, this book looks at the state of tea production in Fujian; the overseas Chinese tea merchants and the fluctuations of the trade during the period of political instability in China; the Sino-Japanese War; decolonisation in Singapore; and the period of collectivisation in China and the Cold War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lim, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.