从海外华商的经商策略看海外华人网络 ——以黄仲涵与林秉祥为例 = Examining the overseas Chinese network through the business strategies of overseas Chinese merchants: a case study of Oei Tiong Ham and Lim Peng Siang

• Main Author: 黄佑解 Wong, You Jie
• Other Authors: Ong Soon Keong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::Chinese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171118
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

海外华商常常与“血缘地缘”、“关系网络”等词联系在一起，学术界针对海外华商的研究也大多从民族文化情感的角度出发。在这样的中国中心视角下，海外华商容易被视为永远心系中国，在做经商决策时永远遵循血缘地缘关系等传统观念的一群。这会导致海外华商研究的单一性和片面性，进而忽略了他们的商业资本、个人特质及居住国对他们造成的影响。本文旨在以黄仲涵和林秉祥为例，通过研究相关文献，打破学术界针对海外华商的刻板印象，同时呼吁学界将海外华商独特的个人特质和所处的大环境纳入研究考量 。 Overseas Chinese merchants are frequently characterized by terms like "kinship and regionality" and "networks". This is also prevalent in academia as researchers often opt to analyse these merchants through the lens of ethnic and cultural affiliations. Such a China-centric viewpoint often leads to an overemphasis on their emotional connections to China, presupposing that traditional ties of blood and geography invariably influence their business decisions.While seemingly harmless, such perspective may inadvertently foster a one-dimensional and biased understanding of overseas Chinese merchants as it neglects significant factors such as the merchant's individuality and the various influences exerted by the countries they resided in. This paper, therefore, seeks to challenge these academic stereotypes using the case studies of Oei Tiong Ham and Lim Peng Siang.