The exceptional commercial success of many Southeast Asians of Chinese origin has generated much contemporary debate about the cultural or social basis of that success. This book shows that those questions have long roots in Indonesia. Dutch colonial officials in the nineteenth century expressed...

Reviews Sino-Malaysian trade over the last two decades, highlighting various problems arising from the interaction of political, economic and trade factors. Also examines the underlying economic realities which had enabled the trade to endure and survive frequent political crises and harrassments.