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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/transnational-merchant-diaspor
 a-modern-east-asia-british-and-cantonese-cooperation-treaty/
SUMMARY:Transnational Merchant Diaspora in Modern East Asia: British and Ca
 ntonese cooperation in the treaty ports seen through the case of the Tongs
 huntai Firm
DESCRIPTION:\n	Kang Jin-A (Professor\, History Department\, Hanyang Univers
 ity\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19)\n	Chair/discussant: Victor Seow (Assi
 stant Professor\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard Universit
 y)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center\n\n\n	This re
 search examines the expansion of the British merchant network and the Cant
 onese merchant networks in Modern East Asia and their relationship as repr
 esentatives of two transnational merchant diaspora groups. Apart from the 
 two merchant groups’ conventional identification as imperialist economic
  intruders or nationalist capitalists respectively\, this research tries t
 o capture their common characteristics as a transnational merchant diaspor
 a\, developing business and expanding their networks interdependently. Thi
 s process could be interpreted as a long way of imitation and assimilation
  for both groups. With the formation of a treaty-port system\, their coope
 ration worked effectively in East Asian trade before meeting the growth of
  Japanese industrial capitalism and the Shōsha capital. The increasing pr
 esence and influence of Japan both in politics and trade in East Asia diss
 olved the long-lasting partnership between Cantonese and British merchants
 \, leading to a reshuffle of Cantonese capital both in China and the rest 
 of East Asia. This talk highlights the history of theTongshuntai firm\, th
 e biggest Chinese/Cantonese capital firm in Korea from 1885 to 1937. Its t
 rade partners\, personal connections and business styles were deeply inter
 -connected with the Cantonese compradore group in China\, high-ranking off
 icials leading the Self-Strengthening Movement in the Qing court\, and Bri
 tish companies\, especially with Butterfield & Swire Co.\, Taikoo. Their s
 tory could elucidate the dynamic cooperation and competition among the mig
 rating merchant groups across national borders in modern East Asia.
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