The Kwik Hoo Tong Trading Society of Semarang, Java: A Chinese Business Network in Late Colonial Asia

Post, P.

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“…In 1898, Guo was selected to co‐chair the Taipei Tea Merchants' Association. In 1911, Guo Chunyang became managing director of the family business (Claver ; Post : 282–3). He simultaneously held Chinese, Japanese, Dutch and English nationalities, these multiple citizenships reflecting the transnational operation of his businesses.…”

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“…The estate in North Point, Hong Kong, that Guo tried to persuade the British to purchase in January 1926, as mentioned above, was his investment since 1921 (Post : 283). As a holder of a 75‐year renewable lease for the two sea lots with the British Crown, Guo was required to ‘build and finish fit for occupation in forty eight calendar months’ (HKRS 58‐1‐91‐24).…”

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Bourgeois Hong Kong and its South Seas connections: a cultural logic of overseas Chinese nationalism, 1898–1933

Kuo

2018

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This paper elaborates upon a cultural logic of overseas Chinese nationalism. Around the early twentieth century, some bourgeois members of overseas Chinese in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Seas mobilised Confucianism as an ethno‐symbol. The latter helped the overseas Chinese bourgeoisie to counter the quest for greater secularisation and to confront the surge of anti‐imperialist movements. The implications of this research include to recentre the role of overseas Chinese in China's modern transformation; to decentre the May Fourth agendas in the understanding of overseas Chinese nationalism; and to situate overseas Chinese nationalism in an extraterritorial space, which includes the Confucian zone created in the dialogical connections between Confucian intellectual elites (such as Zheng Xiaoxu and Chen Huanzhang) and overseas Chinese bourgeois networks that converged in Hong Kong and spread transnationally.

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Bourgeois Hong Kong and its South Seas connections: a cultural logic of overseas Chinese nationalism, 1898–1933

Kuo

2018

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“…His connection with the multiple jurisdictions in the South Seas can be shown by the fact that he simultaneously held Japanese, Dutch and British nationalities. Beginning in 1913, he sought funds from the Bank of Taiwan to establish an ad hoc bank for Chinese merchants in the South Seas (Masao 1919: 6;Guo 1919aGuo : 41-44, 1919bTaiwan Ginko -1939: 258-259;Lin Man-houng 2001;Post 2002 were also operating in a way that was mutually beneficiary. The key rests on the well organization between [European-American colonial] officials and people as well as very fine communication between them.…”

Section: Chinese Trade Under the Japanese Agenda Of 'Japan-china Friementioning

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“…The Singapore branch of the SSA viewed the Cantonese-Indian cooperation as the Cantonese attempt to monopolise the supply of Japanese goods in Singapore. The office therefore decided to introduce exporters from Japan to the Indian retailers in Singapore, in an attempt to marginalise the Cantonese wholesalers (Nan'yo -Kyo -kai 1939: 16; see also Post 1995;Shimizu and Hirakawa 1999).…”

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Singapore in global history

2012

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Terms of use: This document is made available under Deposit Licence (No Redistribution -no modifications). We grant a non-exclusive, nontransferable, individual and limited right to using this document. This document is solely intended for your personal, noncommercial use. All of the copies of this documents must retain all copyright information and other information regarding legal protection. You are not allowed to alter this document in anyway, to copy it for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the document in public, to perform, distribute or otherwise use the document in public. By using this particular document, you accept the above-stated conditions of use. ingapore in lobal Histo Edited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied Singapore in Global HistorySingapore in Global History P u b l i c at i o n s S e r i e s All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owners and the authors of the book. General Editor Paul van der Velde Publications Officer Martina van den Haak Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations 7 Foreword 9 List of Tables Table 6.1 The distribution of Chinese sub-ethnic groups in Southeast Asia 116 Table 6.2 Importers and wholesalers of Japanese shoes in Singapore 124 Table 6.3Chinese textile wholesalers and retailers dealing in Japanese cotton cloth, sarong and rayon in Singapore, 1933 126 List of Illustrations List of Tables and IllustrationsThe basic premise of this volume of articles is that there is a need to respond to the challenge issued by Jerry Bentley -one of the pioneers of the now well-established field of 'World History' -for historians to attempt both to 'globalize history' and to 'historicize globalization'. Though directed at historians, it is a challenge that raises broader questions about the interplay between the global and the local in all fields of endeavour. While the joint editors of this volume are both historians, the contributions are from specialists in history, political science, international relations, sociology, literature, art history and architecture, all of whom address this issue to a greater or lesser degree with regard to Singapore. A major aim of the contributors was to emphasise the contribution of the 'local' to the 'global'. Since the late 1990s there has been a proliferation of studies on Singapore.1 Initially, these works were written by non-professional historians and government bodies responding to the government's call as part of the official 1997 launching of the National Education Programme, which was intended to educate the people about the struggles that led to the success story that was Singapore's. The response included publications on the "Singapore Story", especially the memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew and biographies of other political fi...

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“…His connection with the multiple jurisdictions in the South Seas can be shown by the fact that he simultaneously held Japanese, Dutch and British nationalities. Beginning in 1913, he sought funds from the Bank of Taiwan to establish an ad hoc bank for Chinese merchants in the South Seas (Masao 1919: 6;Guo 1919aGuo : 41-44, 1919bTaiwan Ginko -1939: 258-259;Lin Man-houng 2001;Post 2002 eastern part of Guangdong, but not Fujian. Given the paramount influence of the Seah family in Singapore, this mistaken analysis suggests that the Japanese lacked understanding of the Chinese communities in the region.…”

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Singapore in Global History

2011

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Bibliography 10 singapore in global history events' but of the ordinary and the prosaic, which together provides an alternative version of the past. It eschews the laudatory tone adopted by some previous works on Singapore, which stress the nation's remarkable economic success in the world. Instead, it situates Singapore within a larger picture as one of many societies attempting to cope with the global movement of a vast number of peoples, ideas, and businesses. Here Singapore is not viewed as an isolated community with unique problems and solutions, but as a society that is always responding and itself contributing to rapid changes fuelled by an explosion of information made possible by the latest technology.Singapore in Global History is a testament to the increasing sophistication displayed by those now engaged in reconstructing Singapore's past. These contributions should be viewed as examples of the way that Singaporeans have sought to explain parts of their past by adopting a global perspective while continuing to acknowledge local agency -an achievement that Jerry Bentley would have appreciated. This is precisely the type of study that is needed to create complementary narratives to balance the dominant political ones that focus on the achievements of the founding fathers of Singapore.

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The Kwik Hoo Tong Trading Society of Semarang, Java: A Chinese Business Network in Late Colonial Asia

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Bourgeois Hong Kong and its South Seas connections: a cultural logic of overseas Chinese nationalism, 1898–1933

Bourgeois Hong Kong and its South Seas connections: a cultural logic of overseas Chinese nationalism, 1898–1933

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