The transcolonial politics of Chinese domestic mastery in Singapore and Darwin 1910s-1930s

Title: The transcolonial politics of Chinese domestic mastery in Singapore and Darwin 1910s-1930s
Creator: Lowrie, Claire
Relation: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Vol. 12, Issue 3, p. 1-23
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: In Singapore, the ability to extract profits relied on the social stability provided by elite Chinese. [...]illustrations of Chinese wealth and power were seen to solidify British colonial rule. Debate within white colonial society about who was an appropriate domestic master, anxiety about what went on inside Chinese homes and government intervention into these homes illustrates that colonial power was just as invested in Chinese homes as it was in white homes. [...]analysing the politics of intimacy in Chinese homes illustrates the degree to which the status of coloniser was ambiguous, contested and dependent on colonial context.
Subject: British colonial rule; Singapore; domestic service; servants
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1052719
Identifier: uon:15469
Identifier: ISSN:1532-5768
Language: eng
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