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A Study On Singapore Kwong Wai Shiu Free Hospital(1908-1942)

Posted on:2017-05-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H M HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330509459615Subject:History
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Because of the colonial government of Singapore has not expand the political power into the society of overseas chinese completely in the 19 th century, it make the society of overseas chinese in semi-autonomous status.To maintain the operation of overseas chinese’ society,people establish all kinds of social organizations, such as FenShan, temples, halls, schools, hospitals. As southeast Asia before the war the semi-autonomous Chinese society an important part of the "help" function of community, school, the halls, temples, graves in the help group has been studied and discussed by many scholars, but a lot of research on hospital research is relatively rare. Singapore Kwong Wai Shiu free hospital is founded by guangzhou, zhaoqing two groups who spoke guang fu dialect and the Hui group spoke hakka dialect in 1911.These three groups all come from Guangdong province in China.When the immigrants of the three groups arrived the Singapore,they formed a special mutual assistance which across geographical and dialect,it is named guang hui zhao society. The hospital is to help members belong to provide free medical for Chinese medical charity. The colonial period, Singapore Kwong Wai Shiu free hospital is an independent operation of the medical charity, is a social organization, form guang hui zhao to help the body shall form an integral part of the semi-autonomous function. From the sense of help group of sociology research, on the one hand, in the help it with brigitte ShanTing, wide ideas together form the school, hui zhao across dialect help group of community set camp was buried, education, health care as one of the function body.As a part of the groups society in Singapore,Kwong Wai Shiu free hospital takes an active part in the over-group activities,it helps to accumulate the potential social capital.Revolves around the function of hospital medical, on the other hand, it is with the Hong Kong tung wah hospital, guangzhou convenient leave hospital set up a regional ties, sent in aspects such as the patient home, the raising of funds, recommend doctors work closely, guang fu people constitute the core part of the help group of business and social networks. Moreover, Singapore Kwong Wai Shiu free hospital keepc a lose contact with the colonial authorities, reflects the colonial help group of multivariate multiple social relations in social structure.Through the research on Singapore Kwong Wai Shiu free hospital in fundraising, in the process of organizing management and its institutional perfect help international integration, and help the other two group interaction and cross-regional contact many aspects of research, this article aims to explore convenient leave hospital help group of integrated function and cross-regional business contact, thus analytical Chinese singaporeans to help group of construction, operation and development of the society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Singapore Chinese society, Kwong Wai Shiu, Kwong Wai Shiu free hospital, The integration of group
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