Hui Kian Kwee
Assistant Professor of History
Biography
Main Bio
Kwee Hui Kian is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Southeast Asia and South China, where she has examined various themes relating to colonialism, political economy and diasporic entrepreneurship, from the seventeenth century to the present.
Kwee has been a postdoctoral fellow at Asia Research Institute, visiting fellow at National University of Singapore, and research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).
Select publications
- "Chinese Economic Dominance in Southeast Asia: A Longue Duree Perspective," Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, 1. 2013: 5-34.
- "The End of the �Age of Commerce�?: Javanese cotton trade industry from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries". In Chinese Circulations: Capital, commodities and networks in Southeast Asia. Editors: Eric Tagliacozzo and Chang Wen-chin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, pp. 283-302.
- “Cultural Strategies, Economic Dominance: The Lineage of Tan Bing in nineteenth-century Semarang, Java.� In Linking Destinies: Trade, towns and kin in Asian history. Editors: Peter Boomgaard, Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2008, pp. 197-217.
- “Pockets of Empire: Integrating the Studies on Social Organizations in Southeast China and Southeast Asia,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27, 3. 2007: 616-32.
- The Political Economy of Java�s Northeast Coast, c. 1740-1800: Elite Synergy. Leiden: Brill Publications, 2006.