Krakatau 1883, The Volcanic Eruption and Its Effects
Krakatau 1883, The Volcanic Eruption and Its Effects
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DOI：
10.2307/2056522
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发表时间：
1984-01
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通讯作者：
T. Simkin;R. Fiske
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作者：
T. Simkin;R. Fiske
它是在本世纪的头几十年由一个特别有进取心的人建立的，他设法诱使他的大多数广东老乡把他们的家人带到提提作为他的劳动力，首先是采矿，然后是橡胶庄园。然而，作为一般性的贡献，更重要的是，萧奥提供了丰富的材料，说明战后时期提提敌对秘密社团的发展，以及这些社团与20世纪50年代马来亚重要的两个华人政党之间的密切联系。反过来，政党和秘密社团都与历史形成的阶级划分有关，这些阶级划分在提提镇本身的建制派和在紧急状态初期被安置到提提附属的“新村”的工人之间形成。虽然对这一后期的论述，从占领和紧急状态到1960年，也主要是描述性的，但这里的资料更为丰富。Siaw认为，政治领导风格和支持基础的变化和过渡模式表明，随着地方“自治”的承诺似乎没有实现，普通民众的幻想越来越破灭。虽然他详细讨论了马来亚社会的变化对华人士气的影响，因为国家走向独立，萧提供了关于这些变化的性质的信息很少。在其有限的，几乎是肤浅的处理国家的核心问题以外的蒂蒂，这本书强调了一个案例研究的弱点，无论多么内在有趣的本身，这是没有明确地放在其更广泛的背景。萧留下了许多关于马来亚和提提的阶级与政治关系的重要问题，几乎没有触及。他的书很朴素;它做了什么，它开始做得相当好，但它离开了具有挑战性的工作，读者愿意太多额外的阅读，因为它本身并没有提供基础的分析理解华人社会在马来西亚农村，过去或现在。人类学、社会学和历史学结合在一起，应该比我们在这里发现的要多得多。
established in the early decades of this century by a particularly enterprising individual who managed to induce most of his native Guangdong village kinsmen to bring their families to Titi to serve as his labor force, first in mining, then in rubber estates. More important as a general contribution, however, is the rich material Siaw supplies on the growth of rival secret societies in Titi in the postwar period and on the close connections between these and the two Chinese political parties important in Malaya in the 1950s. Both the political parties and the secret societies were, in turn, linked to historically shaped class divisions between the establishment in Titi town proper and the laborers who were resettled into the "New Village" appended to Titi in the early years of the Emergency. Although the treatment of this later period, from the Occupation and the Emergency through I960, is also chiefly descriptive, the data here are richer. Siaw suggests that patterns of change and transition in political leadership styles and bases of support indicate increasing disillusionment among the common people as the promises of local "self-government" seemed unfulfilled. Although he discusses in detail the impact on Chinese morale of changes in Malayan society as the country moved toward independence, Siaw offers little information about the nature of these changes. In its limited, almost superficial treatment of the central issues of the country beyond Titi, this book exemplifies the weakness of a case study—no matter how intrinsically interesting in and of itself—which is not placed explicitly within its broader context. Siaw leaves many important questions about the relationships between class and politics in Malaya and those in Titi almost untouched. His is a modest book; it does what it sets out to do rather well; but it leaves the challenging work to the reader willing too additional reading inasmuch as it does not in itself provide the basis for analytical understanding of Chinese society in rural Malaysia, past or present. Anthropology, sociology, and history should, in combination, have much more to offer us than we find here.