Cooperation amidst competition : the role of rubber in shaping Japanese and Straits Chinese relations in Malaya, 1914-1941

• Main Author: Cao, Mingmin
• Other Authors: Tapsi Mathur
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Politics and government
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147296
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study concentrates on the role of rubber as an economic commodity in revealing the relations between Japanese and Straits Chinese rubber enterprises within Asian networks. The interwar years marked Japan’s southward economic advance into the Malayan rubber market involving large-scale agricultu...