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Industrialisation and Chinese big business in colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China : the transnational enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904–41)
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Goh, Jeremy and We, Koh Keng (2023) Industrialisation and Chinese big business in colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China : the transnational enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904–41). Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 54 (1). pp. 89-115. doi:10.1017/S002246342300019X ISSN 0022-4634.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002246342300019X
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Industrialization -- Asia, Manufacturing industries -- Asia, Industrialization -- China, Investments, Foreign -- Singapore, Industrialization -- Singapore, Industrial policy, Technology and state, Asia -- Economic conditions, Industrialization -- Malaysia, Economic history -- 20th century, Lim, Peng Siang | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0022-4634 | ||||||
Official Date: | February 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 54 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 89-115 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S002246342300019X | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | National University of Singapore | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 October 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 October 2023 |
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