Local Chinese bankers in postwar Singapore: negotiating cultural entrepreneurship and sociopolitical leadership in Singapore's post-colonial political economy (1945–2015)

• Main Author: Woon, Vincent
• Other Authors: Koh Keng We
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Banking; Cultural entrepreneurship; Chinese business; Bank; Political economy; Singapore
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174450
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis examines the history of Singapore’s local banking sector through the cultural production of its bankers as cultural entrepreneurs within Singapore’s postwar transformations arising from the emergence of its post-colonial political economy. It argues that as cultural entrepreneurs, Chines...