Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...

This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Moving Translations: Poetics, Performance, and Propertyin Indonesia and Malaysia -- Cultivating theWild: Honey-Hunting and Forest Management in Southeast Kalimantan -- Sounding the Makassar Strait: The Poetics and...