The evolution of overseas Chinese social organization in the nineteenth century western Malay states

An attempt is made to demonstrate that locally-based Chinese communities as such did not take shape at the point of settlement in the western Malay States during the early half of the nineteenth century. Rather, they evolved end eventually emerged through a slow process of change, the effects of whi...

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Main Author: Leigh, Woh-Peng
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18965