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In: Pacific affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, p. 434-436
ISSN: 0030-851X
'Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas' edited by Lynn Pan is reviewed.
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, p. 417
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 119
ISSN: 0026-749X
Key Features:Covers important issues such as Overseas Chinese nationalism, capitalism, ethnicity, politics and businessProvides a perspective from within the Chinese communitiesCaptures the mood and process of change within the Southeast Asian Chinese communities.
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In: East Asian historical monographs
In: The Chinese in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions
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In: Chinese Migrants Abroad, p. 114-144
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, p. 417-445
ISSN: 1469-8099
The social history of the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaya in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cannot be fully understood if aspects of class structure and social mobility are not examined. Of course, the social relations of the Chinese were principally determined by kinship and dialect ties, but they were also affected by class affiliations. Class status, like kinship and dialect relations distanted Chinese immigrants from one another. This paper seeks to examine the nature and structure of Chinese classes, class relations and the channels of social mobility in the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaya during the period between 1800 and 1911. The findings of this paper may be applicable to other overseas Chinese communities in the same period outside this region.
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, p. 417-445
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 119-135
ISSN: 1469-8099
With the climax of imperialism in China at the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese nationalism in its modern form grew rapidly and became ever more assertive. As the imperialists concentrated on economic gains, the frustrated nationalists gave increasing attention to economic defences. The prime target of the imperialists was the control of mining and railway construction in different areas; so 'to resist the imperialists' became the catchword of the day, and the movement for recovering mining and railway construction rights highlighted the development of Chinese economic nationalism. While revolutionaries and the fugitive reformers abroad worked out their political programmes for the salvation of China, the conservative Manchu government and scholar-gentry tried to resist imperialism by promoting economic nationalism. To recover the mining and railway rights, to find the alternative capital for economic modernization and to play one power against another, became the strategic aims of economic nationalism.
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 16, Issue 3, p. 397-425
ISSN: 1469-8099
Overseas Chinese political links with China have been a subject of interest for many years. Travellers, journalists, officials and scholars have constantly made speculation, assessments and predictions about the political loyalties of overseas Chinese, and their future in their host countries. Although the overseas Chinese share a common historical and cultural background, they live in different economic environments and political climates, and in different stages of transition. Their political loyalty is especially difficult to assess. It is not just moulded by cultural, economic and political environments; it is also affected by other, less predictable factors. The rise of nationalism in the overseas Chinese communities at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was a major factor in shaping the political life of the overseas Chinese. Using Singapore and Malaya as case studies, this paper seeks to explain how and why overseas Chinese nationalism arose during this period.