Threads between communities : silk trade in Singapore, 1900-1941

• Main Author: Leong, Yoke Yann
• Other Authors: Goh Geok Yian
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155971
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis traces the pattern of silk trade in Singapore from the years 1900 to 1941, during which Japanese silk goods dominated silk trade in Singapore. It examines the development of anti-Japanese boycotts among the Chinese diaspora and the process leading to the imposition of textile quotas as a...