FOCAL
The Asia Directories and Chronicles is a reference work for foreign traders in the Asian region, published annually by the Hong Kong Daily Press, annually between 1863 and 1941.
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Why it matters
FOCAL opens the Asia Directories and Chronicles as a searchable resource on trade, institutions, and foreign residents across Asia between 1863 and 1941.
It is especially useful for studying connected histories, commercial networks, and everyday colonial-era infrastructures beyond a single nation-state frame.