Chi-cheung Choi, DLITT of Tokyo University, is Professor at the History Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published on Chinese festivals and business history, including Continuity and Change: Ethnographies of the Communal Jiao Festivals in Hong Kong (CUHK Press, 2014).Takashi Oishi is Professor of South Asian Studies at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. His articles on India and Indian Ocean regions have appeared in international journals including Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill).Tomoko Shiroyama, Ph.D. (History, 1999), Harvard University, is Professor of Economic History at Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo. She has published monographs and many articles on the Chinese economy and businesses, intra-Asian economic relations, and global economy, including China during the Great Depression (Harvard Asia Center, 2008).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsIntroductionChi-cheung Choi, Takashi Oishi and Tomoko ShiroyamaPart 1: Businesses and Relationships: Networking by Chinese and Indian Merchants1 Changing Approaches to Diasporic Chinese EntrepreneurshipHong Liu and Xin Fan2 Hometown Connections and Chaozhou Business Networks: A Case Study of Kin Tye Lung, 1850–1950Chi-cheung Choi3 Overseas Chinese Remittances in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyTomoko Shiroyama4 Family, Caste, and Beyond: The Business History of Salt Merchants in Bengal, c. 1780–1840Sayako KandaPart 2: Empires, States, and Networks: The Formation of the Asian Regional EconomySection 1: The British EmpireSection 15 Indian Merchant Networks and the British Empire: Instrumentality and Agency in a Global Imperial ContextClaude Markovits6 Bringing a Local Towns into the Global Economy: The Role of Nattukottai Chettiyars on the Malay PeninsulaTsukasa Mizushima7 Comparative Perspectives on the Intraregional Networks of Indian Merchants: A Review of the Match Economy from the Perspective of the State and “Big Business”Takashi OishiSection 2: Japan and Its Colonies8 The Asian Merchants’ Networks and Japan’s Trade Recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930sNaoto Kagotani9 Culture, Market, and State Power: Taiwanese Investment in Southeast Asia, 1895–1945Man-houng LinSection 3: The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China10 Structure and Flexibility in Chinese Merchant Networks: Chinese Chambers of Commerce Overseas in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyLaixing Chen11 Chinese Migration in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945Takako UedaConclusion