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Immigrants and Associations

Chinese in nineteenth-century Singapore

Bibliographic Data

ID2106421
AuthorsMaurice Freedman (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year1960
Volume3
Issue1
Pages25-48
Publication date1960-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500000980
OpenAlexW2045706074
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited14

The society built up by Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia has always been remarkable for its wealth of voluntary associations. In the various historical and sociological studies of Southeast Asian Chinese which have appeared the importance of associations has been duly stressed, although in respect of only two settlements have we been given full treatment of their structure and significance. In this paper I shall consider the associations which Singapore Chinese created and modified in the course of the nineteenth century. Studying this earlier period of Singapore history we can see how the Chinese members of the colonial society adapted their social organization to the conditions of a trading settlement in which, while they often amassed great riches, they were not their own political masters. At the end of the paper I shall consider the Singapore evidence within the wider setting of Southeast Asia and put forward certain general conclusions which may be taken up in other papers on the same theme

Asian studies · China · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Human settlement · Immigration · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Southeast asia · Theme (computing) · Voluntary association · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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Citations per year0,66
Citation span1961 - 2026 (66)
Citation velocitycurrent
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