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This chapter attempts to re-examine the history of the Chinese migration to Southeast Asia by focusing on a significant change in the patterns of Chinese settlement. In essence, it appears that by the mid-eighteenth century, a significantly new phenomenon had appeared: this was the regular settlement of sizeable communities of Chinese labourers in parts of the Malay world. This development had important implications for Southeast Asia as a region and for China as well.
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Trocki, C.A. (1997). Chinese Pioneering in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia. In: Reid, A. (eds) The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies. Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25760-7_4
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