Wu Xiao An, Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941, 伦敦与纽约：英国Routledge学术出版社, 2003年 (精装版与电子版); 新加坡：新加坡国立大学出版社（NUS Press），2010年 (平装新版)。
—— The book was reviewed in the following referred English academic journals and book overseas: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (CUP, 03/2004), Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS, 02/2003 & 06/2012), Business History (UK, 02/2004), Journal of Chinese Overseas (SUP, 02/2005), Choice (USA, 08/2004), BKI: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania (KITLV, 01/2006), Southeast Asian Studies in the PRC (ISEAS, 2006) and SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 02/2007), Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: the Official Journal of Hong Kong Sociological Association (Brill, 03/2007).
—— The book, among six monographs, was shortlisted for “Harry J Benda Prize” (2005), the award for the best book of the year in Southeast Asian studies by the Association for Asian Studies in the USA.
The Chinese in colonial Malaya were noted for their involvement in revenue farming, the rice trade, mining and estates, and pawnbroking. However, the Chinese presence was also significant in broader economic and social spheres, and the wealth and power of the Chinese community helped fuel the emerging colonial state and the modern transformation of Southeast Asia. In Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, Wu Xiao An argues persuasively that Chinese ventures owed much of their success to the flexibility and dynamism of Chinese family and economic networks, and the moral imperatives that governed relationships within the Chinese community.
Using Penang and Kedah as a case study, Wu draws on archival sources, family histories and an examination of legal arrangements and the press to show that personal business and business networks were not bound by the territorial borders of traditional or modern states, but extended across much of Southeast Asia and into China. His demonstration of the complexity of interactions involving new migrants, sojourners and settlers, both Chinese and non-Chinese, challenges understandings of state formation and economic growth in colonial Malaya based on ethnic stereotypes and accounts of events limited by fixed political boundaries.
"Wu's exhaustive use of colonial records and, more importantly, his mining of family records add new dimensions to this often-told tale." - Neil Khor
WU Xiao An is Professor of History at Peking University and Director of the Peking University's Centre for the Study of Chinese Overseas.
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