Family and State: The Formation of a Sino-Thai Tin-Mining Dynasty 1797-1932

By Jennifer W. Cushman

This study presents a close examination of how a Sino-Thai lineage, founded by a Chinese immigrant, Khaw Soo Cheang, functioned as a business enterprise over nearly a century and a half, perpetuating itself not only by making key political and economic alliances, but also by securing its fortunes through a family trust. By working within the Thai political orbit and by drawing on ties to the Chinese community, the Khaw family created a tin-mining dynasty which, for a time, was one of the principal underpinnings of Thai sovereignty in the southern extremity of the kingdom during a period of British imperial pressure and rapid modernization and reform.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195889665
• ISBN13: 9780195889666
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"