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Chinese Revenue Farms and Borders in Southeast Asia.
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- Author(s): TROCKI, CARL A.
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Modern Asian Studies; Jan2009, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p335-362, 28p
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The purpose of this article is to focus on the role of Chinese revenue farmers in designating the borders of the various colonial territories and the states of Southeast Asia in the 19th century. According to historian Nicholas Tarling, most of southeast Asia was colonized and controlled by Western powers during the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, causing conflicts between the territories. The author argues that Chinese revenue farmers were considerably significant in giving substance to the formalistic pronouncements of remote diplomats and statesmen.
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