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Opium and Empire

Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910
By:Carl A. Trocki
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Print ISBN:9780801423901
eText ISBN:9781501746352
Edition:0
Copyright:1990
Format:Page Fidelity

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Breaking new ground in the historiography of the overseas Chinese and British colonialism, this book focuses on two areas largely ignored by students of the period—opium and the economic role of the group of institutions known as kongsi, or secret societies.