Industrialisation and Chinese big business in colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China: The transnational enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904–41)

IF 0.4 3区 社会学 Q3 AREA STUDIES
Jeremy C. Goh, Koh Keng We
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While most studies of industrialisation and modernisation in Singapore have focused on the post-1960 period and the role of the new nation-state, multinational corporations, and government-linked companies, Lim Peng Siang's business career shows that these processes and engagements were already under way before the Second World War. This study seeks to foreground the dynamics of industrialisation and modernisation in the historiography of Chinese business in colonial Singapore, Malaya, and Southeast Asia through examining Lim's business career. It shows how the projects of industrialisation and modernisation that Lim and his contemporaries embodied extended beyond business and the economy, and were entangled in broader cultural, sociopolitical, and urban forces and developments in Singapore and other parts of colonial Southeast Asia, maritime Asia, and the world-at-large between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His experiences highlight the pitfalls of assuming a simple traditional–modern dichotomy, and any essentialistic and ethnic constructions of culture, and the discourses surrounding business strategy, behaviour, and thought.
殖民地新加坡、马来亚和中国的工业化与华人大企业:林鹏祥的跨国企业(1904-41)
虽然大多数关于新加坡工业化和现代化的研究都集中在1960年后的时期,以及新的民族国家、跨国公司和政府关联公司的作用,但林鹏祥的商业生涯表明,这些过程和参与在第二次世界大战之前就已经开始了。本研究试图通过考察林的商业生涯,在新加坡殖民地、马来亚和东南亚的中国商业史学中,突出工业化和现代化的动态。本书展示了林志强和他同时代的人所体现的工业化和现代化项目是如何超越商业和经济的范畴,在十九世纪末和二十世纪初之间,在新加坡和其他东南亚殖民地、亚洲沿海地区以及整个世界,它们与更广泛的文化、社会政治、城市力量和发展纠缠在一起的。他的经历突出了假设简单的传统-现代二分法的陷阱,以及文化的任何本质主义和种族建构,以及围绕商业战略,行为和思想的话语。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is one of the principal outlets for scholarly articles on Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, East Timor, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam). Embracing a wide range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the journal publishes manuscripts oriented toward a scholarly readership but written to be accessible to non-specialists. The extensive book review section includes works in Southeast Asian languages. Published for the History Department, National University of Singapore.
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