Business Strategies in Cambodia : The Intersecting Trajectories of a Chinese Businessman and a Family of Cambodian Civil Servants during the French Protectorate
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2016
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protectorate business networks Cambodia ChinaSujets proches
Family Family structure Families--Social aspects Families--Social conditions Family life Structure, Family Family relationships Relationships, Family Biography--Ancestry Relations with family Biography--Descendants Biography--Family AncestryCiter ce document
Mathieu Guérin, « Business Strategies in Cambodia : The Intersecting Trajectories of a Chinese Businessman and a Family of Cambodian Civil Servants during the French Protectorate », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire, ID : 10670/1.bd4f00...
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French colonial archives allow us to follow the career of a Teochew Chinese businessman and understand how he gained the support of a family of Cambodian civil servants at the provincial level. Through a client-patron bond, the alliance between these two allowed them to take control of the most profitable businesses in Kampong Thom province. Tea Meng Ly, a grain merchant from South China, settled in Cambodia at the beginning of the 20th century. He then diversified his activities, growing to include transportation and fisheries at the beginning of the 1930s. Despite the Great Depression, Tea Meng Ly became very wealthy and his partners, the noble Seang family, rose to the top of the Cambodian social hierarchy.
