Chinese southern diaspora studies_Issue 3 (for Volume 3)
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3
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3
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2009
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1834-609X
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Editor's Introduction [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 3, 2009]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2009) Cooke, Nola; Cooke, Nola
關於這一期的文章 [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 3, 2009]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2009) Cooke, Nola
The Rise of Chinese Mercantile Power in VOC East Indies
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2009) Chang, Pin-tsun; Cooke, Nola
In the VOC times, Chinese merchants not only kept on playing a prominent intermediary role in the traditional external trade of the East Indies with East Asia, but also began to play a prominent intermediary role in the internal trade all over the archipelagos. This article argues, from an organizational perspective, that economic complementarity between the Dutch East India Company and Chinese business networks was responsible for Chinese mercantile success. It also shows how incentive constraints and adaptive inefficiency led to the decline and fall of the VOC.
The Chinese Community of Surabaya, from its Origins to the 1930s Crisis
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2009) Salmon, Claudine; Cooke, Nola
This article traces the history of the Chinese community in Surabaya, a major port-city on
the East Coast of Java, over several centuries. It uses evidence gathered from numerous sources,
including Chinese epigraphy and genealogical records collected locally by the author, early European
travel accounts, Dutch colonial records and memoirs, and Chinese and Malay language newspapers.
The essay unravels, for the first time, the history of a handful of influential entrepreneurial of families
who pioneered local cash-crop production, the sugar industry especially, during the Dutch colonial
era. It concludes by tracing the waves of resinicisation that swept the community in the later
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the new associations that arose as a result and the
gradually fracturing of communal life that followed.
An Anatomy of Commerce and Consumption: Opium and Merchants at Batavia over the Long Eighteenth Century
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2009) SOUZA, George Bryan; Cooke, Nola
This essay considers the commerce and consumption of opium at Batavia (modern
Jakarta), on Java, and in the Indonesian Archipelago, from the later seventeenth to the early
nineteenth centuries. It is a preliminary examination of the lesser known history of those merchants
(Chinese and others) who made their livelihoods from purchasing bulk opium from the Dutch East
India Company (VOC) and re-distributing it commercially, and of the consumers who inhumed the
opium. It utilizes two valuable new sources: a 1697 stele from the Ci Ji temple in south China, and
Dutch debenture bonds (called obligatien) that recorded loans for the purchase of opium on credit
(held in the Indonesian National Archives). Together they allow an analysis that, for the first time, can
accurately identify Hokkien (and other) opium merchants and their closest commercial partners in
eighteenth-century Batavia.
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