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Opium and Empire : Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910

Carl A. Trocki (Author)
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

eBook, English, 2019
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2019