The Manners And Customs Of The Chinese Of The Straits Settlements
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Ah Ku and Karayuki-san
Author | : James Francis Warren |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Prostitution |
ISBN | : 9789971692674 |
Among the groups of workers whose labour built Singapore in the 20th century were women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study explores the trade in women and children in Asia, and looks at the daily lives of prostitutes in the colonial city.
Diaspora's Homeland
Author | : Shelly Chan |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822372037 |
In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of “diaspora moments”—a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant temporalities come into tension with local, national, and global ones—to map the multiple historical geographies in which the Chinese homeland and diaspora emerge. Chan describes several distinct moments, including the lifting of the Qing emigration ban in 1893, intellectual debates in the 1920s and 1930s about whether Chinese emigration constituted colonization and whether Confucianism should be the basis for a modern Chinese identity, as well as the intersection of gender, returns, and Communist campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. Adopting a transnational frame, Chan narrates Chinese history through a reconceptualization of diaspora to show how mass migration helped establish China as a nation-state within a global system.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author | : Royal Empire Society. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1102 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
The Economic Growth of Singapore
Author | : W. G. Huff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1997-08-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521629447 |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the economic development of Singapore, easily the leading commercial and financial centre in Southeast Asia throughout the twentieth century. This development has been based on a strategic location at the crossroads of Asia, a free trade economy, and a dynamic entrepreneurial tradition. Initial twentieth-century economic success was linked to a group of legendary Chinese entrepreneurs, but by mid-century independent Singapore looked to multinational enterprise to deliver economic growth. Nonetheless exports of manufactures accounted for only part of Singaporean expansion, and by the 1980s Singapore was a major international financial centre and leading world exporter of commercial services. Throughout this study Dr Huff assesses the interaction of government policy and market forces, and places the transformation of the Singaporean economy in the context of both development theory and experience elsewhere in East Asia.
A Few Remarks on the Pronunciation of Latin
Author | : Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Latin language |
ISBN | : |
Comparative History of India and Indonesia, Volume 2 India and Indonesia from the 1830s to 1914
Author | : Houben |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004643869 |
Bulletin
Author | : Boston Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Unlocking the World
Author | : John Darwin |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141992808 |
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to Montreal, Bombay to Singapore, Calcutta to Shanghai), individual stories and original ideas, Darwin's book allows us, for better or worse, to see the modern age taking shape.