Lords of the Rim, the Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese [Thick Face, Black Heart -- A Stew of hounds -- Sweet Revenge, Eaten Cold -- Elixir of Youth -- The Man Who Discovered Europe -- Children of Yueh -- Sanbao the Sailor -- Chairman of the High Seas -- Part Two: Empire -- 9. Ports Unknown -- 10. The Cannibal -- 11. The Durian Tree -- 12. Silk Boots -- 13. The Genius -- 14. Where Money Hides -- 15. A Place in the Sun - 16. The Sharp End of the Dragon 17. The Fall of the House of Chiang -- 18. Reshaping America -- Money hides a thousand flaws -- Sunrise on the rim]
Sterling Seagrave; Peggy Seagrave, Eilzabeth Murray, Edward Leslie, Hugh D R Baker, R G Tiedermann, Charles D'Orban, Wang Gongwu, S G Redding, John Badgley, Hamish Todd, Frances Wood, Henry Ginsburg, Beth McKillop
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Published by New York : Batnam Press [Putnam's Sons], c1995., 1995
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1995 reprint ; xii, 338 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780593029077, 9780552140522, 0593029070, 055214052X ; OCLC 36386932 ; LC HF3838.P16 S43 1995 ; Dewey 337.5109 ; LCCN 94044555 ; brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Part economic analysis, part Pacific Rim history, part flamboyant chronicle of fortunes won, lost, and won again, Lords of the Pacific Rim is a rich, engrossing, superbly researched, and spectacularly told account of who the Overseas Chinese are and how they became so powerful. Spanning thousands of years, it encompasses stories of murder and betrayal, bravery and corruption; of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies, and pirates. Consistently praised for his scholarship and his ability to weave multiple strands into a fast-paced narrative, Sterling Seagrave provides us with not only a masterly history, but also a cautionary tale - for the strategies that have proven so successful for the Chinese in the past are just as effective today. Lords of the Rim furnishes a fascinating portal into both the past and the future of the world's Pacific economy ; Contents: Thick Face, Black Heart -- A Stew of hounds -- Sweet Revenge, Eaten Cold -- Elixir of Youth -- The Man Who Discovered Europe -- Children of Yueh -- Sanbao the Sailor -- Chairman of the High Seas -- Part Two: Empire -- 9. Ports Unknown -- 10. The Cannibal -- 11. The Durian Tree -- 12. Silk Boots -- 13. The Genius -- 14. Where Money Hides -- 15. A Place in the Sun - 16. The Sharp End of the Dragon 17. The Fall of the House of Chiang -- 18. Reshaping America -- Money hides a thousand flaws -- Sunrise on the rim ; FINE/FINE 19. Reshaping America.
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- Lords of the Rim, the Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese [Thick Face, Black Heart -- A Stew of hounds -- Sweet Revenge, Eaten Cold -- Elixir of Youth -- The Man Who Discovered Europe -- Children of Yueh -- Sanbao the Sailor -- Chairman of the High Seas -- Part Two: Empire -- 9. Ports Unknown -- 10. The Cannibal -- 11. The Durian Tree -- 12. Silk Boots -- 13. The Genius -- 14. Where Money Hides -- 15. A Place in the Sun - 16. The Sharp End of the Dragon 17. The Fall of the House of Chiang -- 18. Reshaping America -- Money hides a thousand flaws -- Sunrise on the rim]
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- Sterling Seagrave; Peggy Seagrave, Eilzabeth Murray, Edward Leslie, Hugh D R Baker, R G Tiedermann, Charles D'Orban, Wang Gongwu, S G Redding, John Badgley, Hamish Todd, Frances Wood, Henry Ginsburg, Beth McKillop
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- New York : Batnam Press [Putnam's Sons], c1995.
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- 1995
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- 0593029070
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- 9780593029077
On one level, this book is a lively version of Chinese history from 1100 B.C. to the present, through the screen of the dealings of its merchant class. On another level, it is an Arabian Nights tale of scandal, war, politics and, above all, money-making. "To be rich is good," runs an old Chinese proverb. On yet another level, it is a brilliant analysis of the enormous power wielded by a widely scattered group of 55 million Chinese merchants who live in self-imposed or government-ordered exile throughout Asia and, increasingly, in the U.S. and Canada. In the scramble of Western entrepreneurs for footholds in China's enormous markets, asserts Seagrave (The Soong Dynasty), this is the group to reckon with. They're already there. They have a hammerlock on commerce in nearly every country of the Pacific Rim. It is they who financed the current economic boom that has made China the third largest market in the world after the U.S. and Japan, and they who have the greatest stakes in which direction post-Deng China takes. To top off his engrossing account, Seagrave speculates on several possibilities including the breakaway of some southern regions, origin of most of the overseas Chinese, into independent countries. Seagrave has delivered an engrossing mercantile history and he looks forward, with a blend of apprehension and admiration, to the early 21st century, when China is expected to become the world's largest market and the Chinese to join the ranks of the world's most powerful producers.
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On one level, this book is a lively version of Chinese history from 1100 B.C. to the present, through the screen of the dealings of its merchant class. On another level, it is an Arabian Nights tale of scandal, war, politics and, above all, money-making. "To be rich is good," runs an old Chinese proverb. On yet another level, it is a brilliant analysis of the enormous power wielded by a widely scattered group of 55 million Chinese merchants who live in self-imposed or government-ordered exile throughout Asia and, increasingly, in the U.S. and Canada. In the scramble of Western entrepreneurs for footholds in China's enormous markets, asserts Seagrave (The Soong Dynasty), this is the group to reckon with. They're already there. They have a hammerlock on commerce in nearly every country of the Pacific Rim. It is they who financed the current economic boom that has made China the third largest market in the world after the U.S. and Japan, and they who have the greatest stakes in which direction post-Deng China takes. To top off his engrossing account, Seagrave speculates on several possibilities including the breakaway of some southern regions, origin of most of the overseas Chinese, into independent countries. Seagrave has delivered an engrossing mercantile history and he looks forward, with a blend of apprehension and admiration, to the early 21st century, when China is expected to become the world's largest market and the Chinese to join the ranks of the world's most powerful producers.
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