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Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67 (Hardcover)
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Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67 (Hardcover)
Series: Worlds of the East India Company
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Discusses how Britain replicated the "Singapore model" - the use of
imported "industrious" Chinese labour - to other parts of its
empire, with varying degrees of success. The transformation of
Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post
to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and
colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the
recruitment of Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up
over half of the population. The transformation, however, was not
limited to Singapore. As this book demonstrates, colonial
administrators saw that the "model" of whathad been done in
Singapore, especially the use of Chinese migrant labour, could be
replicated elsewhere. This book examines the establishment of the
"Singapore model" and its transference - to Assam in India, Sri
Lanka (then Ceylon), Mauritius, Australia and the West Indies. It
examines the role of the key people who developed the model,
including the Hong Kong merchant houses and their financial
expertise, discusses central ideas which lay behind the model,
notably free trade and the use of "industrious" Chinese rather than
"lazy" natives, and assesses the varying outcomes of the different
colonial experiments. The themes discussed - economic opportunities
and globalisation; theneed to find labour without recourse to
slavery, indentured labour or convict labour; migration, ethnicity
and racism - all continue to have great significance at present, as
does the idea that Singapore, still, is a model to be replicated
more widely. STAN NEAL is Lecturer in Modern British Imperial
History at Ulster University.
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