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Steven B. Miles, "Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2021)

New Books in East Asian Studies

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Cantonese Commercial Influence in the West River Basin

Wagwan are institutions that support a commercial activities of people from a particular place doing business somewhere else. So what we really see is growing canthonys commercial influence. We see in the late nineteenth century new institutions such as charitable halls, hospitals, which are closely linked to these wuagwine. so cantones are basically organizing not only the commerce, but also charitable activities throughout the west river basin.

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