A Study On The Isolation Between Malay And Chinese In British Malaya Before World War Ⅱ

This text tries to inquiry into the problem of s isolation between Malays and Chinese in British Malaya from several angles,such as history,economy and cultural...etc.In the combing process of historical development,this text completely analyzed the comprehensive function of cultural difference and artificial policy etc.It doesn't only definitely point out the function of the cultural differences to the natural isolation,but also realistically elaborates the effect of the British colonial policy to the factitious isolation.British Malaya is a plural society.Malay and Chinese are the two most populous nations in this society.At the beginning of British colonial rule,The Malay Peninsula had not yet been fully developed and Chinese population is relatively low there. Because of the difference of the race culture and the dissimilarity of the economic activities realm,the ethnic insulation phenomenon naturally produces,but the contrived factor is not obvious.Accompany with the large-scale development of the Malay Peninsula at the end of 19 centuries,the increase of Chinese people's population in great quantities,the implement of British various policy of the British colonial government,such as land policy,language policy,education plan and various law system,which took to have race differentiation,along with an European race conception,the isolation between Malay and Chinese deepen day by day,the ethnic isolation completely formed before the Pacific War broke out.The Japan's Imperial Army's provocation policy turned worse an opposition between Malay and Chinese people during the period of war.The isolation between Malays and Chinese mainly embodied at the society division of labour,occupation attribute,live a region etc..Malay much follows the plow(mainly rice to plant),Chinese people in addition to being engaged in mineral industry and follow the plow(mainly cash crop to plant)in part,most managed industry and servicing business;Malay joined the government and Chinese people wet into business;Malay lived in the villages and the northeastern region of Malay Peninsula,Chinese lived in the cities and the Straits Settlements and the west coast of Malay Peninsula. The full text divides six parts:The first Chapter is the introduction,it discusses the reasons why the article selects this topic,defines the concepts relevant to the topic.It reviews the situation of academic researches relating to the thesis.The second Chapter describes the process of the Malaya colonization and discusses races of Malaya at the time of World Warâ…¡not ending.It makes cushion for the launch of behind the corpus parts of treatises.The third Chapter discusses the progress that the racial segregation between Malay and Chinese formed and developed in British Malaya in detail.It also elaborates the concrete performance of the racial isolation between Malay and Chinese.The forth Chapter carries on a discussion to the main characteristic that Malay and Chinese isolate and analyzes relative isolation to mix the complicated situation of the intertexture with limited contact.The fifth Chapter simply describes and analyzes the new varieties which emerge between Malay and Chinese.The sixth Chapter is the conclusion.It looks back the full text and tallies up textual point,prospects the relations of Malay and Chinese thereafter.