Modern enterprises, multiple entanglements : an exploration of Lim Peng Siang’s business career and social activities in colonial Singapore and Fujian (1904 – 1941)

• Main Author: Goh, Jeremy
• Other Authors: Koh Keng We
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::General::History; DRNTU::Business::Operations management::Family owned business enterprises; DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::China::Chinese overseas; DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Southeastern Asia; DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73546
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis illustrates the development of Lim Peng Siang’s businesses and philanthropic engagements in colonial Singapore and Fujian. It argues that his enterprises and philanthropy shaped a new form of industrial modernity—characterized by the implementation of modern technology in production, div...