Tan Cheng Lock: A Malayan Nationalist

Tregonning, K. G.

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“…The ethnic Chinese-based Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) grew from its origins as an organization devoted to the provision of social welfare to the Chinese "New Villages" into a full-fledged political party (Heng 1983;Loh 1988;Slater 2010;Soh 1960;M. I. Tan 2015;Tregonning 1979) (Lee 1998, 365). According to the general consensus in most historical accounts, Tunku's primary motivation for seeking merger can be summarized as the "security Source: Reproduced from Means (1963, 140).…”

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State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands

2024

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In a project of this ambition-covering almost twenty regions in eight countries-the thanks spread far and wide. We first want to thank the incountry experts and informants who made each of the individual chapters possible. As a community of scholars, we are constantly reminded that we are students of the citizens and cultures of the countries that we study. We express deep gratitude to them for allowing us access to their worlds and for imparting wisdom to us in its variety of forms.Next, we want to thank each of the contributors to the volume and the additional scholars whose chapters did not quite fit into the final organization of the book. Mai Truong and Paul Schuler have an excellent account on whether there is a north-south identity divide in Vietnam. The account can be found in a special issue of Asian Politics and Policy (31, no. 1 [2021]). We would have loved to include that article in this volume, and we encourage all to read it. Additionally, Shelli Israelsen wrote an interesting account on the lack of mobilization among Bamar and Karen women, which also unfortunately did not make it into the volume.Earlier drafts of all these chapters were presented at a 2019 American Political Science Association Mini-Conference ("Explaining Identity Formation in Asia"). We would like to thank the six discussants for their comments-both on the individual chapters and on the overall framing for the book:

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State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands

2024

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“…Tan senior, as a legislative councillor and influential towkay (Chinese community-cumbusiness leader), proved a vociferous critic of the alleged European bias in the operation of the IRRA of the 1930s (which, of course, Hay was a principal architect and executor). 144 Such individuals would become highly-influential in post-colonial Malayan politics. To suspicious Asian business leaders, the MREOC looked like an attempt to concentrate control of the industry in the hands of the largest European-owned agency houses.…”

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