“I bequeath the residue of my estate” : intergenerational change, contestation and conflict in a Straits Chinese family, 1863 to 1917
In this paper, I examine how the legal contestations among the descendants of the prominent nineteenth century Straits Chinese merchant Tan Kim Seng show that a family’s unity is hard to maintain and even harder to perpetrate across generations. By drafting out a legal will that incorporated clear i...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73599 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |