Transcending boundaries, conjoining communities : Tan Kim Ching’s business career in colonial Singapore, the peninsular Malay states and Siam (1850 – 1892)

• Main Author: Lim, Chun Hong
• Other Authors: Tapsi Mathur
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore; Humanities::History::Asia::Malaysia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137587
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study examines how Tan Kim Ching’s business transcended political frontiers and conjoined communities, networks, and polities in Southeast Asia during the nineteenth century. By looking at his business ventures in the peninsular Malay states and Siam, this essay illuminates the interconnectedne...