Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Contents IX
4. Contributors XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Traders and workers abroad: Coping with colonial powers and socioeconomic adversaries
7. Coping with colonial governments
8. Chapter 1 Hong Kong rice merchants and Saigon’s rice exports, 1870s–1920s 19
9. Chapter 2 The general, the Chino, and the Señorita: Stories from The Manila Times in early US Colonial Manila 39
10. Chapter 3 Vulnerability, divided loyalties, and secret societies in Siam, 1850–1950 61
11. Modern hygiene and medicine
12. Chapter 4 A different model of hygienic modernity: Encountering plague in Macau in 1895 81
13. Chapter 5 Health crisis in Chinese worlds: Medicine, religion, and epidemics in South China and Southeast Asia, 1880s–1910s 103
14. Collective survival of workers
15. Chapter 6 A Cantonese Carpenters’ strike in Rangoon, 1922 121
16. Chapter 7 Coolies and crisis in Singapore: The great depression in the 1930s and the Chinese working class 141
17. Part II: Banks and businesses during the great depression
18. Silver and the Chinese economy
19. Chapter 8 Silver and East Asian cities before China’s Depression: Shanghai, Tientsin, and Dairen, 1925–1931 165
20. Chapter 9 Distant thunder? Reconsidering the impacts of the great depression on China 201
21. Credit system without a central bank
22. Chapter 10 Chinese currency circulation and credit order in the interwar period 223
23. Chapter 11 Monetary war between Nanjing and Guangzhou during the great depression: Financial unification and national versus local politics in China in the 1930s 253
24. Qiaoxiang (Overseas Chinese hometown) in crisis
25. Chapter 12 Currency reform and the 1934 financial crisis in Shantou 279
26. Chapter 13 Bank runs and runaway bankers in Zhongshan, 1930s 291
27. The paradox of the consumer market
28. Chapter 14 The Chinese cigarette market amid an economic crisis, 1931–1936 309
29. Glossary 329
30. Index 333