Po Yin Chung
Biographic Data
| ID | 4798690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Po Yin Chung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Po Yin |
| FAMILY NAME | Chung |
| SIGNATURE | CHUNG P Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1831-1558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Sojourner to National Icon: Chua Boon Hean
This paper takes a transregional approach to examine primary historical sources that reveal the significance of the experiential and professional meanderings of Chua Boon Hean (1905-1995) for Southeast Asian studies. Chua was a writer and artist who emigrated from Chaozhou in southern China to Malaya in the 1920s. He became a prominent figure in the film industry and is recognised as a cultural icon of post-independence Singapore. Chua’s story ca…
The Rubber Stock Boom in Shanghai and the Kadoorie Enterprises, 1910–1949
Drawing on rarely used primary sources and grounded in a broad historical framework, this article reveals the dynamic history of the Rubber Trust Company Limited in Shanghai and examines how its founders, the Kadoories, used unique colonial spaces to tap and store wealth across political borders. The article thereby not only provides an alternative perspective to the history of the Baghdadi Jews and their extensive networks across Asian port citi…
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: Coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)
Hong Kong’s cultural heritage and tourism offerings include several prominent symbols and legacies drawn from the waters that surround it, including dragon boat racing, Tin Hau temples honouring the Goddess of the sea, and iconic junk boats sailing on the harbour. Within the growing field of Hong Kong heritage studies, however, there has been little work addressing these and other aspects of its maritime past. This paper addresses this contradict…
Floating in Mud to Reach the Skies: Victor Sassoon and the Real Estate Boom in Shanghai, 1920s–1930s
The historical waterfront of Shanghai known as the Bund, one of the most impressive architectural landscapes in Asia, was described in the 1930s in Fortune magazine as having “the tallest buildings outside the American continent; the biggest hoard of silver in the world” and being “the cradle of new China”. 1 At a time when the US economy was in ruins and much of China was besieged by civil war, Shanghai's foreign concessions provided a safe have…
Creating 'Family' Networks across Time and Space: The Alsagoffs in Singapore, 1824-2009
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From Ancestral Tong to Joint-Stock Company: The Transformation of the Yip Kwong Tai Tong in South China, 1830s–1960s
The Kwong Tai Company (光大公司 1917–1960) holds a unique position in modern Chinese history as the first joint-stock company registered in British Hong Kong that originated as an ancestral tong in South China. Its history reflects how a traditional ancestral tong adjusted its operations in a unique historical setting and coped with a new identity. This case provides a missing chapter in the story of how traditional Chinese corporate institutions cam…
The "Pictures in Our Heads": Journalists, Human Rights, and U.S.-South Korean Relations, 1970-1976
American journalists radically changed the tenor of the media coverage about South Korea during the seventies. By reporting instances of human rights abuses perpetrated by South Korea’s Park Chung-hee government, they brought into question the longstanding U.S. support of the Park government. Their reporting played a central role in the 1976 congressional probe of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). The controversy that emerged from th…
ChineseTongas British Trust: Institutional Collisions and Legal Disputes in Urban Hong Kong, 1860s-1980s
By the nineteenth century, with the advance of British colonial activities, British corporate laws had been transplanted to maritime Asia with varying degrees of vigour. In British Hong Kong, these laws often clashed with native customs. Through a reconstruction of the legal disputes found in urban Hong Kong, this paper discusses how British and Chinese business traditions interacted with each other during the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
Moguls of the Chinese Cinema: The Story of the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1924-2002
The history of the Shaw enterprise in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, is a history of Chinese cinema in a century of business evolution. The Shaw industrial model of "vertical integration", which combines production, distribution with exhibition, keeps pace with the technological developments and manages to expand its retail outlets from the stage to cinema, television, DVD and the Internet. Although the Shaw organization embraces a western in…
The Transformation of an Overseas Chinese Family-Three Generations of the Eu Tong Sen Family, 1822-1941
Architecture can be viewed as a reflection of value placed on life. In colonial Hong Kong, a distinctive Gothic-style castle, Euston, was built by tycoon Eu Tong Sen (1877-1941) as his family's grand residence. Eu was a prominent figure in South China and Southeast Asia and remains a local legend decades after his death. Eu's castle, being built in 1928 and demolished in the 1980s, was and still is one of the most recognizable monuments in the re…
Surviving Economic Crises in Southeast Asia and Southern China: The History of Eu Yan Sang Business Conglomerates in Penang, Singapore and Hong Kong
Prologue: Business Environment and Economic BehaviorFor more than two decades, sociologists, historians and economic geographers have produced many case studies on Chinese family businesses. A major consensus of these works suggests that 'networking', especially ethnic and familial, is extremely important to Chinese businesses. Various models and theories have been employed to explain this phenomenon. Notable among these explanations is the idea …
Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China 1900-1925
Politics can be a profitable business as can be found in Republican era Canton amidst a politically fragmented China. Competing merchant groups in Hong Kong sought to finance the regional Canton gover
Surviving Economic Crises in Southeast Asia and Southern China: The History of Eu Yan Sang Business Conglomerates in Penang, Singapore and Hong Kong
Prologue: Business Environment and Economic BehaviorFor more than two decades, sociologists, historians and economic geographers have produced many case studies on Chinese family businesses. A major consensus of these works suggests that 'networking', especially ethnic and familial, is extremely important to Chinese businesses. Various models and theories have been employed to explain this phenomenon. Notable among these explanations is the idea …
Moguls of the Chinese Cinema: The Story of the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1924-2002
The history of the Shaw enterprise in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, is a history of Chinese cinema in a century of business evolution. The Shaw industrial model of "vertical integration", which combines production, distribution with exhibition, keeps pace with the technological developments and manages to expand its retail outlets from the stage to cinema, television, DVD and the Internet. Although the Shaw organization embraces a western in…
ChineseTongas British Trust: Institutional Collisions and Legal Disputes in Urban Hong Kong, 1860s-1980s
By the nineteenth century, with the advance of British colonial activities, British corporate laws had been transplanted to maritime Asia with varying degrees of vigour. In British Hong Kong, these laws often clashed with native customs. Through a reconstruction of the legal disputes found in urban Hong Kong, this paper discusses how British and Chinese business traditions interacted with each other during the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
Creating 'Family' Networks across Time and Space: The Alsagoffs in Singapore, 1824-2009
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Transformation of an Overseas Chinese Family-Three Generations of the Eu Tong Sen Family, 1822-1941
Architecture can be viewed as a reflection of value placed on life. In colonial Hong Kong, a distinctive Gothic-style castle, Euston, was built by tycoon Eu Tong Sen (1877-1941) as his family's grand residence. Eu was a prominent figure in South China and Southeast Asia and remains a local legend decades after his death. Eu's castle, being built in 1928 and demolished in the 1980s, was and still is one of the most recognizable monuments in the re…
Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China 1900-1925
Politics can be a profitable business as can be found in Republican era Canton amidst a politically fragmented China. Competing merchant groups in Hong Kong sought to finance the regional Canton gover
Surviving Economic Crises in Southeast Asia and Southern China: The History of Eu Yan Sang Business Conglomerates in Penang, Singapore and Hong Kong
Prologue: Business Environment and Economic BehaviorFor more than two decades, sociologists, historians and economic geographers have produced many case studies on Chinese family businesses. A major consensus of these works suggests that 'networking', especially ethnic and familial, is extremely important to Chinese businesses. Various models and theories have been employed to explain this phenomenon. Notable among these explanations is the idea …
The Transformation of an Overseas Chinese Family-Three Generations of the Eu Tong Sen Family, 1822-1941
Architecture can be viewed as a reflection of value placed on life. In colonial Hong Kong, a distinctive Gothic-style castle, Euston, was built by tycoon Eu Tong Sen (1877-1941) as his family's grand residence. Eu was a prominent figure in South China and Southeast Asia and remains a local legend decades after his death. Eu's castle, being built in 1928 and demolished in the 1980s, was and still is one of the most recognizable monuments in the re…
Moguls of the Chinese Cinema: The Story of the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1924-2002
The history of the Shaw enterprise in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, is a history of Chinese cinema in a century of business evolution. The Shaw industrial model of "vertical integration", which combines production, distribution with exhibition, keeps pace with the technological developments and manages to expand its retail outlets from the stage to cinema, television, DVD and the Internet. Although the Shaw organization embraces a western in…
ChineseTongas British Trust: Institutional Collisions and Legal Disputes in Urban Hong Kong, 1860s-1980s
By the nineteenth century, with the advance of British colonial activities, British corporate laws had been transplanted to maritime Asia with varying degrees of vigour. In British Hong Kong, these laws often clashed with native customs. Through a reconstruction of the legal disputes found in urban Hong Kong, this paper discusses how British and Chinese business traditions interacted with each other during the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
The "Pictures in Our Heads": Journalists, Human Rights, and U.S.-South Korean Relations, 1970-1976
American journalists radically changed the tenor of the media coverage about South Korea during the seventies. By reporting instances of human rights abuses perpetrated by South Korea’s Park Chung-hee government, they brought into question the longstanding U.S. support of the Park government. Their reporting played a central role in the 1976 congressional probe of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). The controversy that emerged from th…
From Ancestral Tong to Joint-Stock Company: The Transformation of the Yip Kwong Tai Tong in South China, 1830s–1960s
The Kwong Tai Company (光大公司 1917–1960) holds a unique position in modern Chinese history as the first joint-stock company registered in British Hong Kong that originated as an ancestral tong in South China. Its history reflects how a traditional ancestral tong adjusted its operations in a unique historical setting and coped with a new identity. This case provides a missing chapter in the story of how traditional Chinese corporate institutions cam…
Creating 'Family' Networks across Time and Space: The Alsagoffs in Singapore, 1824-2009
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Floating in Mud to Reach the Skies: Victor Sassoon and the Real Estate Boom in Shanghai, 1920s–1930s
The historical waterfront of Shanghai known as the Bund, one of the most impressive architectural landscapes in Asia, was described in the 1930s in Fortune magazine as having “the tallest buildings outside the American continent; the biggest hoard of silver in the world” and being “the cradle of new China”. 1 At a time when the US economy was in ruins and much of China was besieged by civil war, Shanghai's foreign concessions provided a safe have…
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: Coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)
Hong Kong’s cultural heritage and tourism offerings include several prominent symbols and legacies drawn from the waters that surround it, including dragon boat racing, Tin Hau temples honouring the Goddess of the sea, and iconic junk boats sailing on the harbour. Within the growing field of Hong Kong heritage studies, however, there has been little work addressing these and other aspects of its maritime past. This paper addresses this contradict…
The Rubber Stock Boom in Shanghai and the Kadoorie Enterprises, 1910–1949
Drawing on rarely used primary sources and grounded in a broad historical framework, this article reveals the dynamic history of the Rubber Trust Company Limited in Shanghai and examines how its founders, the Kadoories, used unique colonial spaces to tap and store wealth across political borders. The article thereby not only provides an alternative perspective to the history of the Baghdadi Jews and their extensive networks across Asian port citi…
From Sojourner to National Icon: Chua Boon Hean
This paper takes a transregional approach to examine primary historical sources that reveal the significance of the experiential and professional meanderings of Chua Boon Hean (1905-1995) for Southeast Asian studies. Chua was a writer and artist who emigrated from Chaozhou in southern China to Malaya in the 1920s. He became a prominent figure in the film industry and is recognised as a cultural icon of post-independence Singapore. Chua’s story ca…
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