Chʼing's Sale of Honours and the Chinese Leadership in Singapore and Malaya (1877 – 1912)

1 March 1970

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Vol. 1 (2) , 20-32
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400020221

Abstract

The last decade of the 19th century and the turn of the present century saw a flux of Chʼing official titles among overseas Chinese leaders in Singapore and Malaya. They had formerly been excluded from imperial bureaucracy and title holding in China; now it became possible to purchase honours without much effort. This represented a substantial change of the Chʼing's attitude towards its overseas subjects. This paper asks why the titles were made available, and why the overseas Chinese leaders were so eager to acquire them.

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