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|| |"Andrew Wilson's perspectives and interpretations are original and much needed.... This book will significantly enrich both the fields of Philippine history and Chinese diaspora studies."|About the Author|Andrew R. Wilson

What binds overseas Chinese communities together? Traditionally scholars have stressed the interplay of external factors (discrimination, local hostility) and internal forces (shared language, native-place ties, family) to account for the cohesion and "Chineseness" of these overseas groups. Andrew Wilson challenges this Manichean explanation of identity by introducing a third factor: the ambitions of the Chinese merchant elite, which played an equal, if not greater, r...

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