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Preface

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Introduction

J. A. C. Mackie

Sojourning: The Chinese Experience in Southeast Asia

Wang Gungwu

Flows and Seepages in the Long-term Chinese Interaction with Southeast Asia

Anthony Reid

Creolized Chinese Societies in Southeast Asia

G. William Skinner

What Else May Ngo Si Lien Mean? A Matter of Distinctions in the Fifteenth Century

Oliver Wolters

Tycoons and Warlords: Modern Thai Social Formations and Chinese Historical Romance

Craig Reynolds

The Vicissitudes of Maritime Trade: Letters from the Ocean Hang Merchant, Li Kunhe, to the Dutch Authorities in Batavia (1803--09)

Leonard Blusse

Chinese Settlements in Rural Southeast Asia: Unwritten Histories

Mary Somers Heidhues

Ancestral Halls, Funeral Associations, and Attempts at Resinicization in Nineteenth-Century Netherlands India

Claudine Salmon

Contributors

Index