Table of Contents: Water frontier :

Full title:	Water frontier : commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 / edited by Nola Cooke and Li Tana.
Other authors:	Cooke, Nola. Li, Tana.
Format:	Book

Table of Contents:

The water frontier, an introduction / Li Tana
Part 1. Permeable frontiers. Chinese trade and traders in the region
Chinese trade and Southeast Asian economic expansion in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Anthony Reid
Eighteenth-century Chinese pioneers on the water frontier of Indochina / Yumio Sakurai
The principal junk ports trading between South China and Indochina's water frontier ports in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Ames Cong Chin
Part 2. Commercial eddies and flows
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Mekong delta in the regional trade system / Li Tana
The Nguyen Dynasty's policy toward Chinese on Vietnam's water frontier during the first half of the nineteenth century / Choi Byung-wook
Siam and the contest for control of the Trans-Mekong trading networks from the later eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries / Puangthong Rungswasdisab
Ships and shipbuilding in the Mekong Delta, c.1750-1840 / Li Tana
Part 3. Beyond the water frontier
Water world : Chinese and Vietnamese on the riverine water frontier, from Ca Mau to Tonle Sap (c.1850-1884) / Nola Cooke
The internationalisation of Chinese revenue farming networks / Carl A. Trocki.