The overseas Chinese tea merchants in Singapore, 1920-1960: issues and responses
When Singapore was established as a trading post by the East India Company in 1819, one of the chief tenets of the colonial administration in India was to make the island a port for free trade in Southeast Asia. Singapore was also located along the profitable East-West trade route and this meant that merchants would come from all over the world to engage in business and trading activities.
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