Andrew R. Wilson. Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880-1916.(Book Review) From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Chu, Richard T. | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Andrew R. Wilson. Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880-1916. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xi, 304 pp. Hardcover $55.00, ISBN 0-8248-2650-7.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Chinese studies scholars, mainly anthropologists and sociologists, focused their attention on the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia as a template to study Chinese identity, since China was closed o. to them. They were interested in identifying enduring Chinese ...

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