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Twenty Years of Domestic Service: A Malaysian Chinese Woman in Change

Twenty Years of Domestic Service: A Malaysian Chinese Woman in Change 64 Twenty Years of Domestic Service: A Malaysian Chinese Woman in Change Jocelyn Armstrong* The Malaysian Chinese life documented in this paper takes place in the modern post- war period of Malaysia, after 1946. It is a time of rapid modernization and economic development to the point where Malaysia has become, after Singapore, the most developed nation in the region. Events of World War II and its aftermath significantly altered the organization of Malaysian society. One of the more obvious and influential changes was much more contact and interaction among members of the country's three major ethnic groups - the indigenous Malays who made up about 50 per cent of the population, the immigrant Chinese (35 per cent) and the immigrant Indian (10 per cent) communities. For a complex of reasons, out of the increased contact came a general worsening of relations among the groups, and between Malays and Chinese in particular. Conflict in the political arena and competitive economic interests were the primary contemporary causes but they were underscored and fuelled by marked differences in language, religion and general lifestyle. Independence was planned but the British government's insistence on evidence of "racial harmony" and national unity as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Social Science Brill

Twenty Years of Domestic Service: A Malaysian Chinese Woman in Change

Asian Journal of Social Science , Volume 24 (1): 64 – Jan 1, 1996

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1568-4849
eISSN
1568-5314
DOI
10.1163/030382496X00069
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Abstract

64 Twenty Years of Domestic Service: A Malaysian Chinese Woman in Change Jocelyn Armstrong* The Malaysian Chinese life documented in this paper takes place in the modern post- war period of Malaysia, after 1946. It is a time of rapid modernization and economic development to the point where Malaysia has become, after Singapore, the most developed nation in the region. Events of World War II and its aftermath significantly altered the organization of Malaysian society. One of the more obvious and influential changes was much more contact and interaction among members of the country's three major ethnic groups - the indigenous Malays who made up about 50 per cent of the population, the immigrant Chinese (35 per cent) and the immigrant Indian (10 per cent) communities. For a complex of reasons, out of the increased contact came a general worsening of relations among the groups, and between Malays and Chinese in particular. Conflict in the political arena and competitive economic interests were the primary contemporary causes but they were underscored and fuelled by marked differences in language, religion and general lifestyle. Independence was planned but the British government's insistence on evidence of "racial harmony" and national unity as

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Asian Journal of Social ScienceBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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