TY  - BOOK
AU  - SEAGRAVE Sterling
TI  - Lords of the rim
SN  - 055214052X (pbk.):
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Transworld Publishers Ltd.
KW  - ASIA
KW  - CHINA
KW  - CHINESE PEOPLE
KW  - ECONOMY
KW  - EXPATRIATE CHINESE
N2  - Examines the economic power of expatriate Chinese communities throughout the world. Part 1, comprising the first third of the book, provides some social history of China noting in particular the contempt in which Emperors generally held merchants and the extent of treachery and tyranny. Part 2 describes different aspects of the overseas Chinese since 1500 AD
ER  -