Entangled loyalties : Qiaopi, Chinese community structures, and the state in Southeast Asia

• Main Author: van Dongen, Els
• Other Authors: Benton, Gregor
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Southeast Asian Studies; Chinese Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143786
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Dialect, region, and lineage-these were the markers of belonging around which both Chinese emigrant communities and the qiaopi trade were organized. However, these local bases of identification could exist in tension with nationalist attachments, especially when crisis struck. The conflict between l...