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This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related legal and labour organization activities, were highly influential in the process of state formation in Malaya. It shows how Chinese family and business networks were flexible and dynamic, and were closely interlocked with economic and social structures, around which government, and states, developed. It considers the crucial role of wealth and power in the process of state formation, and challenges accepted views of Chin

19th century. --- Business and politics. --- Business networks. --- Chinese. --- Family-owned business enterprises. --- History. --- Kedah - Economic conditions. --- Malaya. --- Business networks --- Family-owned business enterprises --- Chinese --- Business and politics --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- History --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. --- Kedah --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic relations. --- Business --- Politics and business --- Business enterprises, Family-owned --- Family business --- Family businesses --- Family enterprises --- Family firms --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Political aspects --- Kedah (Malaya) --- Politics, Practical --- Political business cycles --- Ethnology --- Business enterprises --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- Kedah (Malaysia)