Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note on Romanization and Chinese Characters xi
6. CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Chinese Economic Entanglements in the Southern Asia Pacific 1
7. PART I: COMMODITIES
8. CHAPTER 2 The Australasian Banana Industry: Chinese, Australian, and Pacific Economic Connections 21
9. CHAPTER 3 Chinese Furniture Factories and European Businesses in Australia, 1880–1900 43
10. CHAPTER 4 Chinese Indentured Labor and the Christmas Island Phosphate Company 61
11. PART II: CHINESE BUSINESS LEADERS
12. CHAPTER 5 Chinese Business Elites and Revenue Farming in British North Borneo 89
13. CHAPTER 6 Chinese Australian Transnational, Transfamilial Business Practices: The Man Sun Wing Enterprise 110
14. CHAPTER 7 Chinese Entrepreneurs Connecting Rural Australia to Asia: Harry Fay of Hong Yuen Pty Ltd. 132
15. CHAPTER 8 Chinese Business in Samoa before World War II 153
16. CHAPTER 9 Epilogue 179
17. Selected Bibliography 191
18. Editors and Contributors 209
19. Index 213