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Abu-Lughod, Janet 29 and 9n26, 140–44, 140n39 Aceh 33 See also Hakka, Chinese speech-group Africa 29, 39 interactions Akashi, Yoji 10n30, 12n36, 11, 131n4, 131n6, 287, 287n7 Baba Chinese Amoy “King’s Chinese” 7–8, 11 Japanese occupation 270, 309, 331 “Straits-born” Chinese in British Gulangyu 98 census 42–43 Hokkien trade with Batavia 36 Advocate Mandarin education 8, 56, in Qing’s multiport system 32, 35 56n98, 86 in Singapore tea trade 166, 183, 269 Challenge from -born Chinese 60 overseas capital in real-estate industry In revenue farming system 43, 48–49, 256, 310 123, 167 relief work for refugees from Amoy to Straits Chinese British Association Hong Kong 279 (SCBA) 49 spread of ideas from Singapore to 126, and late Qing reforms 25, 48, 51 144 and London Missionary Society 54 Amoy University 57, 98, 126, 139 Bai Chongxi 白崇禧 251, 252 Amoy-Datong Canning Company 280, Bank of East Asia 71, 78, 98, 151, 163 281n114 Bank of Taiwan 94, 94n47, 96n55 Anatolia 11 Batavia 30–32, 32n26, 33n29, 36, 94 Anderson, Benedict 3, 3n7, 3n8, 4, 295 Beijing government Anglo-Japanese Alliance 1, 82, 207 and Chen Jiongming’s federalist Anti-Enemy Backing-Up Society 275, movement 148 285–86 and British “One China Policy” 107, 111, Anti-Japanese Boycotts 120, 207, 207n6 Economic boycotts, thesis 12 connections with Chinese overseas 70, Economic Effectiveness 166, 182, 84, 123–26 198–99, 227–34 relief of rice shortage, Hong Kong 91–92 Marco Polo Bridge Incident 130–31 tension with Sun Yat-sen in May Fourth protest, Singapore 1, 85 Guangdong 63, 67, 69, 102, 123, National Humiliation Day 1923, 154n108, 207 Singapore 97 in the May Fourth Movement 1–2, 15, Tatsu Maru Incident, Hong Kong 66–67 82 Arabs Bell, W. H. 263 Maritime trade in history 27, 27n7, 29, Bergère, Marie-Claire 14, 14n43, 14n44, 35 54n95, 66n127, 205n2 Trade of Japanese goods 1930s 232, Braudel, Fernand 17, 17n50, 18n51, 18n52, 233 34n33 Arrighi, Giovanni 17, 17n40 British colonialism in Hong Kong Aw Boon Haw 胡文虎 census data 49–50 and Chinese nationalist government Clementi and 263 7n19, 157, 164, 273, 281, 282n122 free-trade policy 34–35, 41 and development in western trade to Sterling bloc, restricted 246–47 Fujian 7n18, 259, 259n23, 261–62 with CGCCHK 69–70 and Fujian organizations 144–45, 279 with Chen Jitang 262–263 index 329

with Chinese companies in wartime assassination of Liao Zhongkai 111–12 Canton 244–46 in the first united front 102–3, 101n83, with Li Yuk Tong 67–69 103, 105 With Tung Wah leaders 70–72 base of the Southwest regime 147, British colonialism in Singapore 251–52 ban GMDM 135–37 Canton uprising 9, 144n51 banishment order Ho Tung at Chinese maritime customs in of Hau Say Huan 285–86 Canton 71 of Jin Peigao 124–25 Chinese Nationalist Government in of Teh Lay Seng 137 Canton (Canton government) 105, classify the Chinese population 8, 107, 109, 112, 122 41–45, 176–77 economic competition with Hong free trade policy 34 Kong 22, 100, 211–212 Malaya Emergency 289 economic ties with Hong Kong 108–9, British East Indian Company 33–34 113–18, 214–15, 216–19, 224–26, 241 British Imperial Preference System fall to Japan 245–46, 255, 271 Application in Hong Kong 260 Guangdong Merchant Corps 102–3 Criterion for “empire products” 292–93 in 1905 anti-US protest 66 Definition of British interest 293–95 in Qing’s multi-port system 32 Exports from Hong Kong to British in Seamen Strike 9n28, 100–101, 119 Markets 293–95 in Tatsu Maru incident 67 Exports of Hong Kong products to British industrial development 22 Malaya 295 Japanese occupation 245, 246 Ottawa Conference 1932 260 Kwik Djoen Eng’s business 82 British textile (quota) system monoport of Qing 34, 34n33, 38 General practice 238–240, 242–44 overseas Chinese investment 92–93, 111, Exemption in Hong Kong 240–41 116, 256 Burlingame Treaty (1868) 39 response to the May Thirtieth Buy Chinese Products Movement Incident 104 Singapore interests excluded 211–14, 224 Tension with the Beijing May Fourth protests, Hong Kong 85 government 67–68 Nanyang Brothers’ Tobacco Co. 87–88 See also Guangdong Military Government, Exceptions for Hong Kong 223–25 General Guangdong-Hong Kong Strike official agenda 206–210, 214 and Boycott overseas Chinese expectation 210–15 Cantonese products from Japanese occupied areas in “Canton for Cantonese” 103–4 China 224–5, 229, 270–71 Cantonese in Shanghai 151–53 SCCC’s organization 219–23 Canton-Hong Kong industrial zone 294 Shanghai industries in Hong Kong 217, charities 93, 144n51, 157 222–23, 226–27 distribution in the South Seas 41–45 first division of the Guangdong Tingkai 蔡廷鍇 153, 253, 260, 260n28, Army 260n28 290 Heung Sham Cantonese 91 See also Fujian People’s Government, in Chinese nationalist movements 23, Guangdong Army and Nineteenth 113–14, 126, 128, 250 Route Army in Hong Kong census 50 Canton in Qing’s monoport system 33n33 and May Fourth Movement 85 in SCCC 58, 58n113, 65, 219 Arabic trade from Tang to Song 27 in self-strengthening movements 52–55