Advanced search
Publication Cover
The Journal of Development Studies Volume 59, 2023 - Issue 6
Submit an article Journal homepage
2,151
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Anglo-Chinese Capitalism in Hong Kong and Singapore: Origins, Reproduction & Divergence

Bryan CheangDepartment of Political Economy, King’s College London, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 787-810 | Received 15 Mar 2022, Accepted 10 Feb 2023, Published online: 07 Mar 2023

References

  • Andaya, B. W. (1992). Political development between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In N. Tarling (Ed.), Cambridge history of Southeast Asia (Vol. I, pp. 402–459). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Audretsch, D. B., & Fiedler, A. (2022). Does the entrepreneurial state crowd out entrepreneurship? Small Business Economics, 60, 1–17.
  • Balasingamchow, Y-M. (2018). Introduction. In A. Patkar (Ed.), Between the lines: Early print advertising in Singapore, 1830s–1960s (pp. 2–19). Singapore: National Library Board.
  • Bastin, J. (2009). Letters and books of Sir Stamford Raffles. Singapore: Didier Millet.
  • Bellows, T. J. (1993). The Singapore polity: Community, leadership, and institutions. Asian Journal of Political Science, 1(1), 113–132. doi:10.1080/02185379308434020
  • Boettke, P., & Nicoara, O. (2015). What have we learned from the collapse of Communism? In P. Boettke & C. Coyne (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Austrian Economics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Boettke, P., Coyne, C., & Leeson, P. (2008). Institutional stickiness and the new development economics. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 67(2), 331–358. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00573.x
  • Brown, R. (1994). Capital and entrepreneurship in South-East Asia. London, UK: Macmillan Press.
  • Brown, R. (2000). Chinese big business and the wealth of Asian nations. London, UK: Palgrave.
  • Butenhoff, L. (1999). Social movements and political reform in Hong Kong. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Capoccia, G. (2016). Critical Junctures. In O. Fioretos, T. G. Falleti, & A. Sheingate (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of historical institutionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Chan, K., & Chiang, S. (1994). Stepping out: The making of Chinese entrepreneurs. New Jersey, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Chan, K., & Ng, B. (2001). Singapore. In T. Gomez & M. Hsiao (Eds.), Chinese business in Southeast Asia (pp. 38–61). Richmond, VA: Curzon Press.
  • Chang, H. J. (2011). Reply to the comments on ‘Institutions and economic development: theory, policy and history’. Journal of Institutional Economics, 7(4), 595–613. doi:10.1017/S174413741100035X
  • Chan-Yeung, M. (2019). A medical history of Hong Kong: 1942–2015. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Cheang, B. (2022). What can industrial policy do? Evidence from Singapore. Review of Austrian Economics, 1–34. doi:10.1007/s11138-022-00589-6
  • Chiu, S. W., & Lui, T. L. (2000). The dynamics of social movements in Hong Kong: Real and financial linkages and the prospects for currency union. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Chu, Y. W. (2016). The Asian developmental state: Reexaminations and new departures. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Collis, M. (2009). Raffles: The definitive biography. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish.
  • Colonial Office. (1871, February). 129/149 Petition from the Chinese community of Hong Kong. London, UK.
  • Endacott, G. (1973). A history of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
  • Fioretos, O., Falleti, T. G., & Sheingate, A. (2016). Historical institutionalism in political science. In O. Fioretos, T. G. Falleti, & A. Sheingate (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of historical institutionalism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Fraser, J. (1962). Housing estates in Hong Kong. Ekistics, 11(68), 39–41.
  • Gerke, S., & Menkhoff, T. (2003). Chinese entrepreneurship and Asian business networks. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Gomez, E. (2005). The state, governance, and corruption in Malaysia. In N. Tarling (Ed.), Corruption and good governance in Asia. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Goodstadt, L. (2005). Uneasy partners: The conflict between public interest and private profit in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Gordon, G. H. (1843). [Letter to H. Pottinger]. Records of the Colonial Office (COI129/3). London, UK: Colonial Office.
  • Guan, K. C., Heng, D., Borschberg, P., & Tan, T. Y. (2019). Seven hundred years: A history of Singapore. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International Asia.
  • Hack, K. (2012). Framing Singapore’s history. In N. Tarling (Ed.), Studying Singapore’s past: C.M. Turnbull and the history of modern Singapore (pp. 17–64). Singapore: NUS Press.
  • Haggard, S. (2004). Institutions and growth in East Asia. Studies in Comparative International Development, 38(4), 53–81. doi:10.1007/BF02686328
  • Hayes, J. (1996). Friends and teachers: Hong Kong and its people 1953–87. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Hayes, J. (2015). Hong Kong Island Before 1841. In J. Carroll & C.-K. Mark (Eds.), Critical readings on the modern history of Hong Kong (Vol. 2, pp. 549–580). Koninklijke Brill.
  • Hodge, P. (1972). Urban community development in Hong Kong. Community Development Journal, 7(3), 154–164. doi:10.1093/cdj/7.3.154
  • Huff, W. (1994). The economic growth of Singapore. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ileto, R. (1992). Religion and anti-colonial movements. In N. Tarling (Ed.), Cambridge history of Southeast Asia (Vol. II, pp. 197–248). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Josey, A. (1980). Lee Kuan Yew, the crucial years. Singapore: Times Books International.
  • Kaushik, P. D. (1985). ECONOMIC CREED OF THE POST INDEPENDENCE CONGRESS: THE NEHRU-INDIRA PHASE. The Indian Journal of Political Science, 46(4), 474–486.
  • Kong, L., & Sinha, V. (2015). Food, foodways and foodscapes: Culture, community and consumption in post-colonial Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific.
  • Kuo, E. (1980). The sociolinguistic situation in Singapore. In E. Afrendas & E. Kuo (Eds.), Language and society in Singapore (pp. 175–202). Singapore: Singapore University Press.
  • Labouchere, H. (1856). [Letter to J. Bowring]. London, UK: Records of the Colonial Office (COI129/55).
  • Lange, M., Mahoney, J., & Vom Hau, M. (2006). Colonialism and development: A comparative analysis of Spanish and British colonies. American Journal of Sociology, 111(5), 1412–1462. doi:10.1086/499510
  • Latham, A. J. (1994). The dynamics of intra-Asian trade, 1868–1913: The great entrepots of Singapore and Hong Kong. In A. J. H. Latham & Heita Kawakatsu (Eds.), Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy (pp. 145–171). London: Routledge.
  • Lee, E. (1991). Community, family and household. In E. Chew & E. Lee (Eds.), A history of Singapore (pp. 242–267). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Lee, S.-Y. (1974). The monetary and banking development of Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
  • Lim, L. (1983). Singapore’s success: The myth of the free market economy. Asian Survey, 23(6), 752–764. doi:10.2307/2644389
  • Loh, K. S. (2019). Albert Winsemius and the transnational origins of high modernist governance in Singapore. In L. Z. Rahim & M. Barr (Eds.), The limtis of authoritarian governance in Singapore’s developmental state (pp. 71–91). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mackie, J. (1998). Business success among Southeast Asian Chinese: The role of culture, values, and social structures. In R. Hefner (Ed.), Market cultures: Society and morality in the new Asian capitalisms (pp. 129–146). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • MacPherson, K. L. (1998). Asian department stores. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.
  • McCloskey, D. (2010). Bourgeois dignity: Why economics can’t explain the modern world. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Mitchell, D. (2017). The recipe for Singapore’s prosperity. Retrieved from https://www.cato.org/commentary/recipe-singapores-prosperity.
  • Monnery, N. (2017). Architect of prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the making of Hong Kong. London, UK: London Publishing Partnership.
  • Morse, H. B. (1910). The international relations of the Chinese empire. Shanghai, CN: Kelly and Walsh.
  • Munn, C. (2005). Introduction. In C. Smith (Ed.), Chinese Christians - Elites, middlemen and the church in Hong Kong (pp. 1–12). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Newbold, T. (1839). Political and statistical account of the British settlements in the Straits of Malacca. London, UK: John Murray.
  • Nicoara, O. (2021). The comparative liberty-Dignity context of innovative immigrant entrepreneurship. In A. John, & D. W. Thomas (Eds.), Entrepreneurship and the market process (pp. 123–149). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
  • Owen, N. (1999). Economic and social change. In N. Tarling (Ed.), Cambridge history of Southeast Asia (Vol. II, pp. 139–200). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Prime, P. B. (2012). Utilizing FDI to stay ahead: The case of Singapore. Studies in Comparative International Development, 47(2), 139–160. doi:10.1007/s12116-012-9113-8
  • Rahn, R. (2014). Economic freedom versus big government. Retrieved from https://www.cato.org/commentary/economic-freedom-versus-big-government
  • Raffles, S., & Hooker, B. (1968). Raffles’ Singapore regulations—1823. Malaya Law Review, 10(2), 248–291.
  • Redding, G. (1990). The spirit of Chinese capitalism. New York, NY: De Gruyter.
  • Saw, S.-H. (2012). The population of Singapore. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Sayer, G. (1980). Hong Kong, 1841–1862: Birth, adolescence, and coming of age. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Sim, V. (1950). Biographies of prominent Chinese in Singapore. Singapore: Nan Kok Publication.
  • Smith, C. (1976). Notes on Tung Wah hospital, Hong Kong. Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 16, 263–280.
  • Smith, C. (1985). Chinese Christians: Elites, middlemen, and the church in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Soifer, H. D. (2012). The causal logic of critical junctures. Comparative Political Studies, 45(12), 1572–1597. doi:10.1177/0010414012463902
  • Song, O. (1984). One hundred years’ history of the Chinese in Singapore. London, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Stanley, F. (1843). [Letter to H. Pottinger]. London, UK: Records of the Colonial Office (COI129/2).
  • Tan, E. (1961). The Chinese banks incorporated in Singapore and Malaya. In T. Silcock (Ed.), Readings in Malayan economics. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press.
  • Tarulevicz, N. (2013). Eating her curries and kway: A cultural history of food in Singapore. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.
  • The Straits Times (1959). PAP wants all Chinese clan groups abolished. Retrieved from https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19591110-1.2.7
  • Thum, P. (2012). The limitations of monolingual history. In N. Tarling (Ed.), Studying Singapore’s past: CM Turnbull and the history of modern Singapore (pp. 98–120). Singapore: NUS Press.
  • Tilman, R. (1989). The Political leadership: Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP team. In K. S. Sandhu, & P. Wheatley (Eds.), Management of success (pp. 53–69). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.
  • Trocki, C. (1994). Political structures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In N. Tarling (Ed.), The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia. (Vol. 2, pp. 79–130). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Turnbull, C. M. (2009). A history of Singapore, 1819–2005. Singapore: NUS Press.
  • Visscher, S. (2002). Business, ethnicity and the state: The representational relationship of the Singapore Chinese chamber of commerce and the state. Retrieved from https://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai:research.vu.nl:publications%2F60208f34-2264-49b1-953e-7f6f9ecbed47.
  • Welsh, F. (1993). A history of Hong Kong. London, UK: HarperCollins.
  • Wharton, C. (2015). Advertising: Critical approaches. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Whitaker, J. (2011). The department store: History, design, display. London, UK: Thames and Hudson.
  • White, L. (2012). The clash of economic ideas. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Williams, L. (1962). The dynamism of early Singapore. Second biennial conference proceedings. Chinese Taipei, China: International Association of Historians of Asia.
  • Wong, G. (2018). The modern Malayan Home. In A. Patkar (Ed.), Between the lines: Early print advertising in Singapore, 1830s–1960s (pp. 118–137). Singapore: National Library Board.
  • Wong, K.-L. (1991). Commercial growth before the second world war. In E. Chew & L. Edwin (Eds.), A history of Singapore (pp. 41–65). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Wong, S.-L. (1988). Emigrant entrepreneurs: Shanghai industrialists in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
  • World Bank (2022). GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) - Hong Kong SAR, China, Singapore [Line graph]. Retrieved from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?locations=HK-SG.
  • Yen, C-h. (2014). Ethnic Chinese business in Asia: History, culture and business enterprise. Singapore: World Scientific.
  • Yip, K-C., Wong, M., & Leung, Y. (2018). Documentary history of public health in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
  • Yong, C. (1967). Chinese leadership in nineteenth-century Singapore. Journal of the Island Society, 1(1), 1–18.
  • Yong, C. (1992). Chinese leadership and power in colonial Singapore. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International.
  • Yu, T. (1998). Adaptive entrepreneurship and the economic development of Hong Kong. World Development, 26(5), 897–911. doi:10.1016/S0305-750X(98)00013-8

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.