https://chinaroots.org/en/tags/overseas-chinese-capital/Recent content in Overseas Chinese Capital on ChinaRoots - Digital Local ChroniclesHugoen-usThu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0800https://chinaroots.org/en/posts/xiamen-taiwan-economic-isomorphism/Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0800https://chinaroots.org/en/posts/xiamen-taiwan-economic-isomorphism/Drawing from Xiamen Local Chronicles and historical Customs archives, this article provides a scholarly analysis of the economic isomorphism between Xiamen and Taiwan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Historical data reveals that 93% of Taiwan's export tea was processed and shipped via Xiamen, while Xiamen transshipped 55.99% of the [85,297 shi] of grain sent annually from Taiwan to Fujian. The article further explores how Overseas Chinese capital, led by figures like Tan Kah Kee and Huang Yizhu, integrated the two regions into an inseparable economic entity long before the formal proposal of the 'Three Links'.