TY - BOOK AU - Cai,Zhixiang AU - Oishi,Takashi AU - Shiroyama,Tomoko TI - Chinese and Indian merchants in modern Asia: networking businesses and formation of regional economy T2 - Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective SN - 9789004408609 AV - HF3752 .C45 2019 U1 - 382.089/95105 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Leiden Boston PB - BRILL KW - Business enterprises, Foreign KW - Asia KW - History KW - Business networks KW - Merchants, Foreign KW - Commerce N2 - "In Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia, the contributors put together an important and lucid study of overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their impacts on the emerging global economy from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. In contrast to the conventional focus on the merchants' networks per se, the chapters of this volume uncover their "networking," the process in which they constructed and utilized linkages based on the shared concepts such as caste, kin alliances, and religion. By analyzing the interactions between the merchants and the European and Japanese empires, along with Asian states, this volume provides the critical insights into the configuration of the regional economic order in the past and at present" UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004408609 ER -