Abstract
This book begins with the question of how politics was related to business within the context of Hong Kong during the early twentieth century. In particular, it asks how politics became a form of business investment in South China during the Republican era. In response, it singles out for discussion the intricate relationship between Cantonese merchants, the Hong Kong government and Chinese politics, and argues that in an environment where there was no central government to provide institutional protection, through either the law or patronage, investors had to set up their own institutions to enable them to conduct business. During the 1910s and 1920s, Chinese merchants in Hong Kong attempted to do this by financing a regional government in South China. Colonial Hong Kong made this attempt possible because it offered them legislative and diplomatic protection and, therefore, a haven to which they could retreat.
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