Singapore’s social & business history through paper ephemera in the Koh Seow Chuan collection
Electronic Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
2017
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"Singapore’s Social and Business History Through Paper Ephemera in the Koh Seow Chuan Collection features essays on the history of one of Singapore’s most well-known family-owned enterprises, Eu Yan Sang; the business practices of the Chettiar moneylenders from India; and the role of remittance letters in fostering family ties among early Chinese immigrants in Singapore"--Foreword.
Additional Details
- Title
- Singapore’s social & business history through paper ephemera in the Koh Seow Chuan collection
- Creators
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- Owner:National Library Board
- Subject
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- Business enterprises—Singapore--History
- Eu Yan Sang International Ltd.--History
- Nattukottai Chettiars
- Moneylenders—Singapore--History
- Credit—Singapore--History
- Chinese—Singapore—Correspondence--History
- Emigrant remittances--Singapore
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore, 2017
- National Library Board Singapore, 2017
- Contributors
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- Koh, Keng We
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- paper ephemera and piecing histories from below / Koh Keng We -- ch. 1. History of a transnational business enterprise: The Eu Yan Sang-Sang Woh-Yan Woh empire / Koh Keng We -- ch. 2. Court and law: reassessing business practices of the Chettiars in colonial Singapore through legal documents / Kannan Kesavan -- ch. 3. Warm tidings in a Cold War: remittance letters and family ties in the Chinese Diaspora, 1950s-1970s / Dong Huiying --Acknowledgements – Index – About the authors.
- Copyright
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- All rights reserved. National Library Board Singapore, 2017