The ‘Unfinished Business’ of Malaysia's Decolonisation: The Origins of the Guthrie ‘Dawn Raid’*
The ‘Unfinished Business’ of Malaysia's Decolonisation: The Origins of the Guthrie ‘Dawn Raid’*
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马来西亚非殖民化的“未竟事业”：格思里“黎明突袭”的起源*
DOI：
10.1017/s0026749x09990308
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
N. White
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作者：
S. Yacob;N. White
摘要 1981 年 9 月 7 日，在伦敦证券交易所的一次“黎明突袭”中，马来西亚首屈一指的英国橡胶和油棕集团 Guthrie Corporation Limited 在不到四个小时内就被当地控制。这是 1970 年代和 1980 年代马来西亚后殖民经济重组过程中最引人注目的外国公司收购案，格思里黎明袭击事件在当代马来西亚人的记忆中仍然是一个著名但同时又充满争议的时刻。本文借鉴了各种来源，包括对格思里黎明突袭主要参与者和观察员的原始采访和信件，以及新发布的与 1981 年 9 月英马事件相关的英国文件，对这一最具标志性的马来西亚企业收购的起源进行了新的解读。它特别强调了已故和后殖民时期马来官僚和经济精英中一个关键人物（但常常被忽视）的长期抱负，即伊斯梅尔·穆罕默德·阿里。同时，文章强调了在马来西亚内部族裔商业竞争日益激烈的背景下，马来西亚新经济政策的具体要求。
Abstract In a ‘dawn raid’ on the London Stock Exchange on 7 September 1981, the premiere British rubber and oil palm conglomerate in Malaysia, the Guthrie Corporation Limited, was taken into local control in less than four hours. This was the most dramatic Malaysian acquisition of a foreign company during the restructuring of the country's post-colonial economy during the 1970s and 1980s, and the Guthrie Dawn Raid remains a celebrated but, at the same time, contested juncture in contemporary Malaysian memory. Drawing upon a variety of sources—including original interviews and correspondence with key participants in, and observers of, the Guthrie Dawn Raid, as well as newly released British documents related to the Anglo-Malaysian events of September 1981—this article presents a new interpretation of the origins of this most iconic of Malaysian corporate takeovers. In particular, it stresses the long-term aspirations of a key (but often overlooked) figure within the late and post-colonial Malay bureaucratic and economic elite, Ismail Mohamed Ali. At the same time, the article emphasizes the specific requirements of Malaysia's New Economic Policy against the backdrop of burgeoning intra-Malaysian ethnic business competition.