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The Business of Politics and Ethnicity: A History of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Business of Politics and Ethnicity: A History of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce... Y O W C H E U N H O E B O O K R E V I E W S 1 5 4 The Business of Politics and Ethnicity: A History of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry . By Sikko VISSCHER. Singapore: NUS Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 372. T H E R E A R E T W O F E A T U R E S T H A T P U T S I N G A P O R E on the world map. First, Singapore is the only viable political entity outside the PRC (comprising Mainland China and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau) and Taiwan with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese. Second, it has attained spectacular economic success initially as a trading port under the British colonial administration and subsequently as an industrialized and modernized nation under the government established by the People’s Action Party (PAP). How the interactions between the ethnic Chinese and successive governments have made up Singapore’s success story is definitely an important topic in the studies of Chinese overseas and of nation building and state formation. As an academic work http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Chinese Overseas Brill

The Business of Politics and Ethnicity: A History of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Journal of Chinese Overseas , Volume 4 (1): 154 – Jan 1, 2008

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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1793-0391
eISSN
1793-2548
DOI
10.1163/179325408788691426
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Y O W C H E U N H O E B O O K R E V I E W S 1 5 4 The Business of Politics and Ethnicity: A History of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry . By Sikko VISSCHER. Singapore: NUS Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 372. T H E R E A R E T W O F E A T U R E S T H A T P U T S I N G A P O R E on the world map. First, Singapore is the only viable political entity outside the PRC (comprising Mainland China and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau) and Taiwan with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese. Second, it has attained spectacular economic success initially as a trading port under the British colonial administration and subsequently as an industrialized and modernized nation under the government established by the People’s Action Party (PAP). How the interactions between the ethnic Chinese and successive governments have made up Singapore’s success story is definitely an important topic in the studies of Chinese overseas and of nation building and state formation. As an academic work

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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