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How for Chinese merchants in Korea to react to the emergent situation during the 1st Sino-Japanese War What is their perspectives on the relationship between Chine and Korea at that time. The contradictory behaviors as a Chinese citizen and as a transnational merchant diaspora.

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It would be confirmed that the 1st Sino-Japanese war became the modern nationalism for overseas Chinese people. However, Overseas Chinese merchants in East Asia could be well understood from the perspective of transnational merchant diaspora beyond the boundary of nation. Cantonese merchant network would be the typical one.

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This page is a summary of: Nationalism across Frontiers: The Narratives and Economic Activities of Tongshuntai, an Overseas Chinese Company in Korea during the First Sino-Japanese War (愛國主義在邊境:在甲午戰爭期間旅韓華商同順泰號的故事和經濟活動), Translocal Chinese East Asian Perspectives, May 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/24522015-01001004.
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