Hui Kian Kwee

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Hui Kian Kwee is Assistant Professor of History at the University of  Toronto, where she is also affiliated with the Centre for Diaspora and  Transnational Studies. Kwee received her B.A. and M.A. from National  University of Singapore, and her Ph.D. from Leiden University. Her 
research focuses on Southeast Asia and South China, where she has  examined various themes relating to colonialism, capitalism, political  economy and diasporic entrepreneurship, from the eighteenth century to  the present. Kwee is currently conducting a three-year research  project funded by SSHRC and the Connaught Foundation entitled  Cultural Strategies, Capital Accumulation: Elite Chinese Merchants in 
Nineteenth-Century Melaka and Batavia.       

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