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Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, and the relationships between the participants involved.

Table of Contents:

• Glossary
• 1. Introduction
• Research outline
• Access to capital, information and security
• The Indonesian case
• Sources
• Research method
• 2. Prelude to rapid expansion (1800-1884)
• The colonial state and the economy
• The resilience of private enterprise
• Private enterprise under the cultivation system
• Tilting the balance : finance in transition
• Wholesalers and retailers
• 3. Crisis and adaptation (1884-1890s)
• Economic policy and political expansion
• The organization of trade
• The onset of the crisis : sugar and coffee
• The beginning of the crisis
• The crisis experienced
• The crisis prolonged : import and credit

• 4. Redefining Dutch-Chinese commercial relations (1890s-1910)
• An awkward alliance : the interdependence of Dutch and Chinese business
• The economic position of the Chinese under scrutiny
• A wave of failures : Surabaya in the late 1890s
• The Chinese boycot of the Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam
• 5. The road to expansion (1910-1930)
• The late colonial state : consolidation and conflict
• The colonial economy before 1914
• The lure of sugar
• DJ B and the outbreak of the First World War
• The colonial economy after 1914
• The Kwik Hoo Tong Handelmaatschappij : a prominent Chinese in sugar
• 6. Economic crisis and commercial resilience (1930-1942 )
• The economic experience of the 1930s
• The incidence of failure : bankruptcy cases in the 1920s and 1930s
• Commercial resilience : two examples of crisis management in the 1930s
• 7. Conclusion
• A bird's-eye view of colonial trade
• Trade dynamics.

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Author/Creator:

Claver, Alexander

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Text in English.

Main Work:

Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java: colonial relationships in trade and finance, 1800-1942 [by Claver, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java (Leiden ; Brill, 2014 — ISBN 9789004256576; LCCN 2013040518)

Related Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; [volume] 291

Subjects:

Chinese — Indonesia — Java — History

Dutch — Indonesia — Java — History

Merchants — Indonesia — Java — History

China — Foreign economic relations — Netherlands

Java (Indonesia) — Commerce — History — 19th century

Java (Indonesia) — Commerce — History — 20th century

China — Commerce — History

Netherlands — Colonies — Asia — Economic conditions

Netherlands — Commerce — History

Netherlands — Foreign economic relations — China

Chinese

Commerce

Dutch

International economic relations

Economic history

Netherlandish colonies

Asia

China

Indonesia — Java

Netherlands

Merchants

1800-1999

Economic conditions

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references(pages 405-429) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 442 pages ).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HF3809.J4 C538 2014eb

ISBNs:

9789004263239 (e-book)
9004263233
9004256571 (hardback, acid-free paper) [Invalid]
9789004256576 (hardback, acid-free paper) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1163/9789004263239

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019667499

OCLC Numbers:

1256588644