Download or read book Merchant Princes of the East written by Rupert Hodder and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter draws upon the arguments developed earlier in the book to consider the significance of the links between China and the Overseas Chinese both for China and for the Far East as a whole.