Singapore Chinese Society in Transition
Subtitle: Business, Politics, & Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780820467993
Subjects: Business & Management; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Sociology, Social Studies; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - Southeast Asia; Asia - General; 1945-1963; 1963-1965; 20th century; Chinese; Singapore
Description: "This book analyzes the dynamic, processes, mechanisms, and consequences of socio-economic and political changes in Singapore Chinese society from 1945 to 1965. By employing a wide range of primary materials that have been rarely used before, the authors have demonstrated the multi-dimensionality and complexity of the Chinese society in postwar Singapore, which was full of vitality and politically active. They argue that the combination of the internal dynamic and the changing socio-political framework shaped the nature and characteristics of the Chinese community and its fundamental role in the making of modern Singapore. This study is essential reading for an understanding of not only the Chinese politics and business networks in postwar Singapore, but also the historical evolution of the newly independent republic."--BOOK JACKET.