Chinese in Southeast Asian gold, silver and tin mines in in the 18th and 19th centuries.

What is it about?

This contribution to the published collection, 'Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities and Networks in Southeast Asia', points out from the evidence of mining that Chinese migrants were contributing mightily to the development of Southeast Asian economies at least a century in advance of the European 'high colonialism' that is too often used as the explanation for there arrival en masse.

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