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Article: Chinese business in the making of a Malay state, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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- October 1, 2004
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Chinese business in the making of a Malay state, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang By WU XIAO AN London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp 239. Index, Bibliography, Illustrations. DOI: 10.1017/S0022463404270278
This book examines the shifting fortunes of Chinese business enterprise and its networks in the Malay state of Kedah. Wu Xiao An has focused primarily on the rice trade and the opium revenue farming business, choosing the period from 1880 to 1909 to show the rise and fall of Chinese businesses in the revenue farming system in that state. He also describes Kedah's peculiar relationship to the British colony of Penang and its Siamese overlord. Economically, it was ...