The Rise of Singapore's Great Opium Syndicate, 1840–86
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Vol. 18 (1), 58-80
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400001259
Abstract
This study aims to reconstruct a neglected chapter in the history of the Singapore Chinese. The opium farm, which was the monopoly for the manufacture and sale of chandu, or smokeable opium, was one of the primary Chinese-dominated economic institutions of nineteenth-century Singapore. A study of the farm provides the historian with an institutional focus which can increase our understanding of the history of the Chinese community in Singapore during its formative years.Keywords
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