Political Participation in Multiple Homelands | Event Highlights

ABSTRACT
One of the central themes in the history of Chinese in Malaya is their political identity, China-oriented or Malaya-oriented. It is also often discussed that the Chinese in Malaya experienced identity transition from China-oriented to Malaya-oriented. Those previous studies are based on the premise that one person had only one nationality and national identity, which is a product of 20th century of war. In this talk, from a point of view free from the premise, I will discuss the active political involvement of the Chinese business community in Penang, both in China and the Straits Settlements, at the beginning of the 20th century.
BIODATA
SHINOZAKI Kaori is Professor at the Faculty of Foreign Studies, University of Kitakyushu, Japan. She has been doing research on the Chinese community in multi-ethnic Malaysian society. Her recent publication includes "Contribution of the Hakka Entrepreneur Chang Pi Shi to the Development of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce： Revisiting the Origins of the Chamber of Commerce", in Wei-An Chang ed, Hakka Studies in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the World, Hsinchu: National Chiao Tung University Press, 2017, and "The Penang Chinese and Electoral Process of the Republic of China's National Assembly, 1913", in Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 6(1&2), 2017.