The Straits Chinese Between Empires
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Colonial Malaya, c.1890-1920
Christian Jones
Graduate Institute Publications, 2022
This ePaper investigates the Straits Chinese community and their positioning relative to the British Empire and the Chinese Empire around 1900. It studies their responses to and interactions with the transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The Straits Chinese are framed as a cosmopolitan community in a cosmopolitan city who played an important role in the reconfiguration of imperial citizenship and the deterritorialisat...





















































































































































































