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Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands), The Department of Culture, Organization and Management of the Vrije Universiteit, The University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the European Science Foundation, in particular its Asia Committee (Annual Asia–Europe Workshop Series) for supporting the workshop ‘Transnational Exchanges: Business Networks and Identity Formation in nineteenth and twentieth Century Asia and Europe’ held in Amsterdam from 5 to 8 May, 2003. Several of the contributions to this volume were first presented at this workshop. The authors wish to express their gratitude to Saskia Stehouwer for her excellent presentation work in the final phase of preparing this volume for publication.