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• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction
• 1. "One Belt, One Road": Financing the New Silk Road Belt and Road Initiative Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Asia's infrastructure arms race
• 2. Marching West: The Economics of Power in Central Asia Xinjiang Central Asia Russia
• 3. In the Heat of the Sun: Advancing Down the Mekong Laos Cambodia
• 4. California Dreamin': How China "Lost" Myanmar Gateway to the Bay of Bengal
• 5. A String of Pearls: Fear and Loathing in the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean Pakistan India Sri Lanka
• 6. Fiery Waters: Mapping the South China Sea Vietnam
• Conclusion.
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"China", Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the dominant power in Asia. From the Mekong River Basin to the Central Asian steppe, China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. By setting up new regional financial institutions, Beijing is challenging the post-World War II order established under the watchful eye of Washington. And by funding and building roads, railways, ports and power lines-a New Silk Road across Eurasia and through the South China Sea and Indian Ocean-China aims to draw its neighbours ever tighter into its embrace. Combining a geopolitical overview with on-the-ground reportage from a dozen countries, China's Asian Dream offers a fresh perspective on the rise of China' and asks: what does it means for the future of Asia?
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• List of maps, tables, figures and boxes
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Glossary
• Convetions
• Maps
• Introduction
• Research outline
• Access to capital, information and security
• The Indonesian case
• Sources
• Research method
• Prelude to rapid expansion (1800-1884)
• The colonial state and the economy
• The resilience of private enterprise
• Private enterprise under the cultivation system
• Tilting the balance : finance in transition
• Wholesalers and retailers
• Crisis and adaptation (1884-1890s)
• Economic policy and political expansion
• The organization of trade
• The onset of the crisis : sugar and coffee
• The beginning of the crisis
• The crisis experienced
• The crisis prolonged : import and credit
• Redefining Dutch-Chinese commercial relations (1890s-1910)
• An awkward alliance : the interdependence of Dutch and Chinese business
• The economic position of the Chinese under scrutiny
• A wave of failures : Surabaya in the late 1890s
• The Chinese boycot of the Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam
• The road to expansion (1910-1930)
• The late colonial state : consolidation and conflict
• The colonial economy before 1914
• The lure of sugar
• DJ B and the outbreak of the First World War
• The colonial economy after 1914
• The Kwik Hoo Tong Handelmaatschappij : a prominent Chinese in sugar
• Economic crisis and commercial resilience (1930-1942 )
• The economic experience of the 1930s
• The incidence of failure : bankruptcy cases in the 1920s and 1930s
• Commercial resilience : two examples of crisis management in the 1930s
• Conclusion
• A bird's-eye view of colonial trade
• Trade dynamics
• Sources
• Bibliography
• Index.

Trading enterprise figures prominently in Indonesian history. Commercial activities penetrated deep into the economy, politics and society of the former Netherlands Indies. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes this, largely forgotten, world of commerce. During the period 1800-1942 this vanished world was, however, bustling. Merchants of very different background and stature cooperated and competed with each other. Trading relations were forged and dissolved, contracts were honoured and broken, fortunes were made and lost. Using unpublished archival sources in Indonesia and the Netherlands Alexander Claver recounts the diverse trading mechanisms, complex credit relations and countless participants involved. How Dutch, Chinese, and Arab traders related to each other in such demanding business environment is the fascinating story of this book. Full text (Open Access).
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