“I bequeath the residue of my estate” : intergenerational change, contestation and conflict in a Straits Chinese family, 1863 to 1917

• Main Author: Sim, Tng Kwang
• Other Authors: Koh Keng We
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities; DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Social aspects; DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Politics and government
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73599
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...