Governing the Chinese in multi-ethnic colonial Burma between the 1890s and 1920s

• Main Author: Li, Yi
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: British India; Burma; Colonialism; Migration; Overseas Chinese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81498; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40831
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article analyses the development of the governing mechanism in British Burma relating to one particular ethnic group, the Chinese, between the 1890s and 1920s. Recognizing its limited knowledge of China and the Chinese, British Burma relied in the early days on experiences from other colonies t...