TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trocki,Carl A.
TI  - Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 
T2  - Asia East by South
SN  - 9781501746352
AV  - HN700.67.A8 T76 1990
U1  - 306/.095957 20
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Singapore
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Foreign workers, Chinese
KW  - Opium trade
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. The Kongsi and the History of the Singapore Chinese --; 2. Conflict and the Kongsis of Southeast Asia --; 3. Opium and the Singapore Economy --; 4. Economic Struggle and the Singapore Kongsis --; 5. The Rise of the Great Opium Syndicate --; 6. The Collapse of Singapore's Great Syndicate --; 7. The Demise of the Farming System --; 8. Opium and the Political Economy of Colonial Singapore --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501746352
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501746352
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501746352/original
ER  -