The business of migration: Xiamen in motion and transformation

• Main Author: Ong, Soon Keong
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::General; Xiamen, China; Migration
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160283; https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/journals/TheChinaReview
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

is article examines the post–Opium War development of Xiamen a er it was opened as a treaty port. While the British had hoped to use Xiamen as the beachhead for their economic advancement into China, foreign trade through the port failed to take o . Yet by the 1930s, Xiamen was one of the most p...