Tan Kah-kee : the making of an overseas Chinese legend / C.F. Yong, Flinders University, Australia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yong, C. F. (Ching Fatt)

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Economic conditions--1949-.

China.

Chen, Jiageng, 1874-1961.

Chen, Jiageng.

Industrialists--Singapore--Biography.

Industrialists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 418 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013.

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an in-depth study of one of the most important and prominent Hua-ch'iao (Overseas Chinese) of twentieth-century Southeast Asian and China - Tan Kah-kee (1874-1961).For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee's case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy and financially maintained it for sixteen years. He was the only Hua-ch'iao of his generation to have led the Chinese in South-

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Tables; Maps; Plates; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Historical Background; 2 The Tan Clan; 3 Emergence of an Entrepreneur; 4 The Building of a Pre-eminent Social Status; 5 From Pang to Community Leadership: Tan Kah-kee's Power Base; 6 From Community to Political Leadership: Tan Kah-kee in Command; 7 Northern Star and Southern Kamikaze: Tan Kah-kee Transformed; 8 Politics Takes Command: The Hua-ch'iao Flag Fluttering; 9 Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-400) and index.

Previous edition: Singapore : Oxford University Press, 1987.

ISBN:

9789814447904

9814447900

OCLC:

868980141