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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Dynamics of Trans-Regional Business and National Politics: The Impact of Events in China on Fujian-Singapore Tea Trading Networks, 1920-1960
- Ist Teil von
- Singapore in Global History, 2011, p.135
- Ort / Verlag
- Amsterdam University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This chapter examines the business network of the Chinese tea merchants in Singapore and the impact of events in China on it. Large numbers of overseas Chinese who had migrated from Fujian to Singapore were familiar with Fujian tea and continued to consume it. This consumption pattern led to the merchants in Fujian opening new firms in Singapore to trade in Fujian tea, especially semi-fermentedwulongvarieties such as Anxitieguanyin(安溪铁观音) and Wuyishuixian(武夷水仙). These merchants arrived in Singapore either to start branches of their families’ tea businesses from Fujian or to establish new companies to import, reprocess,
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9089643249, 9789089643247Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt46mtvv_11
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Applied sciences, Archives, Behavioral sciences, Beverages, Business, Business operations, Business structures, Businesspeople, Commerce, Committee meetings, Committees, Cultural anthropology, Cultural institutions, Economic disciplines, Economics, Employment, Executive committees, Food, Food science, Foodstuffs, Human behavior, Human societies, International economics, International trade, Labor economics, Macroeconomics, Meetings, Merchants, National politics, Non alcoholic beverages, Occupations, Political science, Politics, Social behavior, Social groups, Social interaction, Sociology, Tea, Trade