Title Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java : colonial relationships in trade and finance, 1800-1942 / by Alexander Claver.

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (xxiv, 442 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Series	Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; volume 291
	Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 291.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-429) and index.
Contents	Glossary -- 1. Introduction -- Research outline -- Access to capital, information and security -- The Indonesian case -- Sources -- Research method -- 2. Prelude to rapid expansion (1800-1884) -- The colonial state and the economy -- The resilience of private enterprise -- Private enterprise under the cultivation system -- Tilting the balance : finance in transition -- Wholesalers and retailers -- 3. Crisis and adaptation (1884-1890s) -- Economic policy and political expansion -- The organization of trade -- The onset of the crisis : sugar and coffee -- The beginning of the crisis -- The crisis experienced -- The crisis prolonged : import and credit -- 4. Redefining Dutch-Chinese commercial relations (1890s-1910) -- An awkward alliance : the interdependence of Dutch and Chinese business -- The economic position of the Chinese under scrutiny -- A wave of failures : Surabaya in the late 1890s -- The Chinese boycot of the Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam -- 5. The road to expansion (1910-1930) -- The late colonial state : consolidation and conflict -- The colonial economy before 1914 -- The lure of sugar -- DJ B and the outbreak of the First World War -- The colonial economy after 1914 -- The Kwik Hoo Tong Handelmaatschappij : a prominent Chinese in sugar -- 6. Economic crisis and commercial resilience (1930-1942) -- The economic experience of the 1930s -- The incidence of failure : bankruptcy cases in the 1920s and 1930s -- Commercial resilience : two examples of crisis management in the 1930s -- 7. Conclusion -- A bird's-eye view of colonial trade -- Trade dynamics.
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Summary	Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, and the relationships between the participants involved.
Subject	Java (Indonesia) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
	Java (Indonesia) -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century.
	Netherlands -- Commerce -- History.
	China -- Commerce -- History.
	Dutch -- Indonesia -- Java -- History.
	Chinese -- Indonesia -- Java -- History.
	Merchants -- Indonesia -- Java -- History.
	Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- Economic conditions.
	Netherlands -- Foreign economic relations -- China.
	China -- Foreign economic relations -- Netherlands.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
	Chinese. (OCoLC)fst00857169
	Commerce. (OCoLC)fst00869279
	Dutch. (OCoLC)fst00899678
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	International economic relations. (OCoLC)fst00976891
	Merchants. (OCoLC)fst01017057
	Netherlandish colonies. (OCoLC)fst01930858
	Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240495
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	Indonesia -- Java. (OCoLC)fst01244461
	Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
	Kolonie.
	Welthandel.
	Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
	Asien.
	China.
	Java.
	Netherlands.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Claver, Alexander. Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java 9789004256576 (DLC) 2013040518 (OCoLC)863043975
ISBN	9789004263239 (electronic bk.)
	9004263233 (electronic bk.)
	9789004256576
	9004256571

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