Lee Kam Hing
Biographic Data
| ID | 736460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Kam Hing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee Kam |
| FAMILY NAME | Hing |
| SIGNATURE | HING L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2224-0088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does China Matter to the Chinese Overseas? A Case Study of Malaysian Chinese Businesses
Do businesses owned or operated by the Chinese diaspora engage more with China than businesses owned by non-ethnic Chinese? To answer this question, ethnic Chinese owned companies listed on the Malaysian stock exchange were compared with non-Chinese owned/controlled on the extent of their business in China. Of some 800 listed companies as of December 2017, 547 or 68% are Malaysian Chinese companies. Of the latter, some 18.4%, conduct business in …
A Hakka Saga by Heenie Lee
Reviewed by: A Hakka Saga by Heenie Lee Lee Kam Hing A Hakka Saga, by Heenie Lee. Petaling Jaya: Heenie Lee, 2020, 272pp. ISBN: 978-967-180-950-1 This volume honours a promise the author made to his mother that he would write an account of how his grandfather, Chong Kin Voon, came to Malaya in 1909 as an illiterate labourer and eventually became a wealthy tin miner and philanthropist. The author’s mother, Chong Kim Yoke, being the eldest girl, wa…
From Patrimonialism to Profit: The Changing Flow of Funds from the Chinese in Malaysia to China
Unlike the period before World War II, the Malaysian Chinese no longer look towards China as a home they will ultimately return to. This is seen in the flow of funds to China from the Malaysian Chinese. Before the war the motivation was patrimonial. The funds were in the form of patriotic bonds and collections and remittances that went to the home provinces of the Malaysian Chinese mostly in Fujian and Guangdong. Since the 1990s the funds flow ha…
State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
This article discusses how Chinese cemeteries were managed within the broader social and political framework in colonial Malaya and Singapore. This is done through studying the discussions of the Singapore Municipal Council and by looking at a Hokkien cemetery in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur. The article touches on how the colonial state increasingly came to regulate Chinese cemeteries, suggesting that procedures of burials and cemeteries not only …
Surviving Financial Crises: The Chinese Overseas in Malaysia and Singapore
Most studies of financial crises focus on the impact on states, and the states’ responses. Few, if any, have focused on how these crises affect communities within the state which do not have control of the state apparatus. These groups, left out of decision-making processes and calculations by the state, suffer the most. In pre-war British Malaya and Malaysia, these groups were the Chinese overseas, Indians and some Malay minorities. A study of t…
Aceh-Penang Maritime Trade and Chinese Mercantile Networks in the Nineteenth Century
Aceh, as the world’s largest producer of pepper in the nineteenth century and exporter of areca nut, had a long and sustained trade connection with Penang. Among its major imports through Penang were cloth, rice, opium and fire-arms. Trade with Penang led to the rise of a wealthy group of ulèëbalangs who were able to assert their autonomous status vis-à-vis the Acehnese sultan. Penang was where many Acehnese took refuge when conflict broke out be…
Developers and Speculators: Housing, Ethnic Chinese Business and the Asian Financial Crisis in Malaysia
Housing has played a central role in both the Asian and global financial crises, a decade apart. While there are major differences with respect to these roles, there are also similarities, the most obvious being the links with the banking system. The impact of these crises on the housing sector has been extensively researched, but findings have been overwhelmingly based on aggregate or sector data. Using firm-level data from Malaysia on the Asian…
R obert K uok: Family, Dialect, and State in the Making of a M alaysian Magnate
C hinese overseas family businesses generally lack longevity. In addition to difficulties in transiting towards professional management they are susceptible to state pressures. However, R obert K uok, the richest man in S outheast A sia who heads a vast business empire, has been able to surmount both challenges. This study shows how K uok successfully turned three important sources of identity into strengths: family, dialect, and the state. These…
Chinese Overseas Remittances to China: The Perspective from Southeast Asia
Remittances of Chinese overseas during the decades before and just after the Second World War formed an important part of China's economy and were a significant feature of Southeast Asia's economic history. Familial and ethnic sentiments drove this impulse to send money back to China. In reviewing evidence for Malaya and Singapore, this paper is a new study on the nature, the role and the mechanisms of transmission of these remittances. In charti…
A Neglected Story: Christian missionaries, Chinese New Villagers, and Communists in the Battle for the 'hearts and minds' in Malaya, 1948-1960
During the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), the colonial authorities resettled an estimated half a million rural dwellers, mainly Chinese, from the fringe of the jungle, to cut them off from contact with armed members of the Malayan Communist Party. The re-location led to political alienation among many resettled in the nearly 500 New Villages. Winning their support against the insurgency therefore was urgent. At this juncture, foreign missionaries…
Malaysian Chinese: Seeking Identity in Wawasan 2020
The rise of China as a major regional power and the maintenance of a vibrant business network among the so-called “Overseas” Chinese have led some observers to look once again at the integration process of the ethnic Chinese within Southeast Asia. Some scholars and political leaders argue that the emerging international stature of China could conceivably encourage a cultural re-sinification of the Southeast Asian Chinese. This new concern comes a…
Malaysian Politics and the 1978 Election
The Taman Siswa in Postwar Indonesia
Taman Siswa, with its emphasis on a national education to unite the various cultural and ideological segments in Indonesia, has always been identified with the prewar nationalist movement.Established in 1922 by Ki Hadjar Dewantoro as the Nationaal Onderwijs Instituut "Taman Siswa," the movement was to some extent a reaction to the "deracinating" effects of Western education.1In Taman Siswa schools, attention was given to the study of what was the…
Chinese Overseas Remittances to China: The Perspective from Southeast Asia
Remittances of Chinese overseas during the decades before and just after the Second World War formed an important part of China's economy and were a significant feature of Southeast Asia's economic history. Familial and ethnic sentiments drove this impulse to send money back to China. In reviewing evidence for Malaya and Singapore, this paper is a new study on the nature, the role and the mechanisms of transmission of these remittances. In charti…
Surviving Financial Crises: The Chinese Overseas in Malaysia and Singapore
Most studies of financial crises focus on the impact on states, and the states’ responses. Few, if any, have focused on how these crises affect communities within the state which do not have control of the state apparatus. These groups, left out of decision-making processes and calculations by the state, suffer the most. In pre-war British Malaya and Malaysia, these groups were the Chinese overseas, Indians and some Malay minorities. A study of t…
The Taman Siswa in Postwar Indonesia
Taman Siswa, with its emphasis on a national education to unite the various cultural and ideological segments in Indonesia, has always been identified with the prewar nationalist movement.Established in 1922 by Ki Hadjar Dewantoro as the Nationaal Onderwijs Instituut "Taman Siswa," the movement was to some extent a reaction to the "deracinating" effects of Western education.1In Taman Siswa schools, attention was given to the study of what was the…
From Patrimonialism to Profit: The Changing Flow of Funds from the Chinese in Malaysia to China
Unlike the period before World War II, the Malaysian Chinese no longer look towards China as a home they will ultimately return to. This is seen in the flow of funds to China from the Malaysian Chinese. Before the war the motivation was patrimonial. The funds were in the form of patriotic bonds and collections and remittances that went to the home provinces of the Malaysian Chinese mostly in Fujian and Guangdong. Since the 1990s the funds flow ha…
Developers and Speculators: Housing, Ethnic Chinese Business and the Asian Financial Crisis in Malaysia
Housing has played a central role in both the Asian and global financial crises, a decade apart. While there are major differences with respect to these roles, there are also similarities, the most obvious being the links with the banking system. The impact of these crises on the housing sector has been extensively researched, but findings have been overwhelmingly based on aggregate or sector data. Using firm-level data from Malaysia on the Asian…
A Neglected Story: Christian missionaries, Chinese New Villagers, and Communists in the Battle for the 'hearts and minds' in Malaya, 1948-1960
During the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), the colonial authorities resettled an estimated half a million rural dwellers, mainly Chinese, from the fringe of the jungle, to cut them off from contact with armed members of the Malayan Communist Party. The re-location led to political alienation among many resettled in the nearly 500 New Villages. Winning their support against the insurgency therefore was urgent. At this juncture, foreign missionaries…
Does China Matter to the Chinese Overseas? A Case Study of Malaysian Chinese Businesses
Do businesses owned or operated by the Chinese diaspora engage more with China than businesses owned by non-ethnic Chinese? To answer this question, ethnic Chinese owned companies listed on the Malaysian stock exchange were compared with non-Chinese owned/controlled on the extent of their business in China. Of some 800 listed companies as of December 2017, 547 or 68% are Malaysian Chinese companies. Of the latter, some 18.4%, conduct business in …
State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
This article discusses how Chinese cemeteries were managed within the broader social and political framework in colonial Malaya and Singapore. This is done through studying the discussions of the Singapore Municipal Council and by looking at a Hokkien cemetery in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur. The article touches on how the colonial state increasingly came to regulate Chinese cemeteries, suggesting that procedures of burials and cemeteries not only …
Aceh-Penang Maritime Trade and Chinese Mercantile Networks in the Nineteenth Century
Aceh, as the world’s largest producer of pepper in the nineteenth century and exporter of areca nut, had a long and sustained trade connection with Penang. Among its major imports through Penang were cloth, rice, opium and fire-arms. Trade with Penang led to the rise of a wealthy group of ulèëbalangs who were able to assert their autonomous status vis-à-vis the Acehnese sultan. Penang was where many Acehnese took refuge when conflict broke out be…
The Taman Siswa in Postwar Indonesia
Taman Siswa, with its emphasis on a national education to unite the various cultural and ideological segments in Indonesia, has always been identified with the prewar nationalist movement.Established in 1922 by Ki Hadjar Dewantoro as the Nationaal Onderwijs Instituut "Taman Siswa," the movement was to some extent a reaction to the "deracinating" effects of Western education.1In Taman Siswa schools, attention was given to the study of what was the…
Malaysian Politics and the 1978 Election
Malaysian Chinese: Seeking Identity in Wawasan 2020
The rise of China as a major regional power and the maintenance of a vibrant business network among the so-called “Overseas” Chinese have led some observers to look once again at the integration process of the ethnic Chinese within Southeast Asia. Some scholars and political leaders argue that the emerging international stature of China could conceivably encourage a cultural re-sinification of the Southeast Asian Chinese. This new concern comes a…
R obert K uok: Family, Dialect, and State in the Making of a M alaysian Magnate
C hinese overseas family businesses generally lack longevity. In addition to difficulties in transiting towards professional management they are susceptible to state pressures. However, R obert K uok, the richest man in S outheast A sia who heads a vast business empire, has been able to surmount both challenges. This study shows how K uok successfully turned three important sources of identity into strengths: family, dialect, and the state. These…
Chinese Overseas Remittances to China: The Perspective from Southeast Asia
Remittances of Chinese overseas during the decades before and just after the Second World War formed an important part of China's economy and were a significant feature of Southeast Asia's economic history. Familial and ethnic sentiments drove this impulse to send money back to China. In reviewing evidence for Malaya and Singapore, this paper is a new study on the nature, the role and the mechanisms of transmission of these remittances. In charti…
A Neglected Story: Christian missionaries, Chinese New Villagers, and Communists in the Battle for the 'hearts and minds' in Malaya, 1948-1960
During the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), the colonial authorities resettled an estimated half a million rural dwellers, mainly Chinese, from the fringe of the jungle, to cut them off from contact with armed members of the Malayan Communist Party. The re-location led to political alienation among many resettled in the nearly 500 New Villages. Winning their support against the insurgency therefore was urgent. At this juncture, foreign missionaries…
Aceh-Penang Maritime Trade and Chinese Mercantile Networks in the Nineteenth Century
Aceh, as the world’s largest producer of pepper in the nineteenth century and exporter of areca nut, had a long and sustained trade connection with Penang. Among its major imports through Penang were cloth, rice, opium and fire-arms. Trade with Penang led to the rise of a wealthy group of ulèëbalangs who were able to assert their autonomous status vis-à-vis the Acehnese sultan. Penang was where many Acehnese took refuge when conflict broke out be…
Developers and Speculators: Housing, Ethnic Chinese Business and the Asian Financial Crisis in Malaysia
Housing has played a central role in both the Asian and global financial crises, a decade apart. While there are major differences with respect to these roles, there are also similarities, the most obvious being the links with the banking system. The impact of these crises on the housing sector has been extensively researched, but findings have been overwhelmingly based on aggregate or sector data. Using firm-level data from Malaysia on the Asian…
Surviving Financial Crises: The Chinese Overseas in Malaysia and Singapore
Most studies of financial crises focus on the impact on states, and the states’ responses. Few, if any, have focused on how these crises affect communities within the state which do not have control of the state apparatus. These groups, left out of decision-making processes and calculations by the state, suffer the most. In pre-war British Malaya and Malaysia, these groups were the Chinese overseas, Indians and some Malay minorities. A study of t…
State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
This article discusses how Chinese cemeteries were managed within the broader social and political framework in colonial Malaya and Singapore. This is done through studying the discussions of the Singapore Municipal Council and by looking at a Hokkien cemetery in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur. The article touches on how the colonial state increasingly came to regulate Chinese cemeteries, suggesting that procedures of burials and cemeteries not only …
From Patrimonialism to Profit: The Changing Flow of Funds from the Chinese in Malaysia to China
Unlike the period before World War II, the Malaysian Chinese no longer look towards China as a home they will ultimately return to. This is seen in the flow of funds to China from the Malaysian Chinese. Before the war the motivation was patrimonial. The funds were in the form of patriotic bonds and collections and remittances that went to the home provinces of the Malaysian Chinese mostly in Fujian and Guangdong. Since the 1990s the funds flow ha…
A Hakka Saga by Heenie Lee
Reviewed by: A Hakka Saga by Heenie Lee Lee Kam Hing A Hakka Saga, by Heenie Lee. Petaling Jaya: Heenie Lee, 2020, 272pp. ISBN: 978-967-180-950-1 This volume honours a promise the author made to his mother that he would write an account of how his grandfather, Chong Kin Voon, came to Malaya in 1909 as an illiterate labourer and eventually became a wealthy tin miner and philanthropist. The author’s mother, Chong Kim Yoke, being the eldest girl, wa…
Does China Matter to the Chinese Overseas? A Case Study of Malaysian Chinese Businesses
Do businesses owned or operated by the Chinese diaspora engage more with China than businesses owned by non-ethnic Chinese? To answer this question, ethnic Chinese owned companies listed on the Malaysian stock exchange were compared with non-Chinese owned/controlled on the extent of their business in China. Of some 800 listed companies as of December 2017, 547 or 68% are Malaysian Chinese companies. Of the latter, some 18.4%, conduct business in …
Political science (13 works) · Asian Studies and History (12 works) · China (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works)