- 期刊
浅谈英殖民初期的砂拉越华社之社会结构－从田汝康的《砂拉越华人》报告书说起
The Social Structure of Sarawak Chinese under British Colonial Rule with Reference to The Chinese of Sarawak: A Study of Social Structure by Dr. Tien Ju Kang
摘要
二战后的5年，也就是1946至1950年间，砂拉越境内和国际间都发生了不少划时代的大变动，砂拉越从一个英人家族王国变成英国政府殖民地之后，改变了整个砂拉越的政治、经济、社会面貌。而1949年新中国的成立更如巨石入水般，在海外华侨社群中激起无数涟漪，砂拉越华人在结构和意识形态上也因此出现了微妙的变化，这段时期华社在各个层面上的改变决定了往后数十年砂拉越华人的命运，也锁定了砂拉越整个社会的未来走向。而田汝康博士在1950年6月发表的《砂拉越华族》报告书正是这段时期砂拉越华社较为中肯、严谨、有系统的学术纪实，具有一定的参考价值。此报告书虽碍于篇幅，无法完整、全面的记录砂拉越华人在各方面的作为及情况，但透过田野调查所收录的种种华社实况却真实的拼凑出战后砂拉越华社面貌，堪称战后砂拉越华人社会研究调查的经典之作，也是学术界研究砂拉越华人最广为参考并引用的学术报告书。数十年来，许多学者及文史工作者都先后以此报告书为研究战后砂拉越华族社会结构的主要导引。本论文以《砂拉越华人》报告书为主轴，重现战后砂拉越华人在社会、经济、教育及政治等层面的实际情况，从社会结构的变动窥探华社的意识形态变化。
並列摘要
Five years after the Second World War (1946-1950), a time of drastic changes throughout the world, Sarawak was converted from a land that was ruled by a British family to that of a colony under British rule. The transition to Crown colony status took place when Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke ceded the state to Britain in 1946. The British colonial government in Sarawak, with its multi-ethnic population, was concerned with the economic role of the Chinese, their political loyalties and their co-existence with other communities within Sarawak. Tien Ju Kang, a social anthropologist, was sent by the British colonial government to study the Chinese community of Sarawak. His research in Sarawak was focused on the role of associations in the Chinese community and their economic role. His report was submitted to the Social Science Research Council in England, and subsequently published as a monograph. Despite some omissions such as the interaction between the Chinese and the natives, the influence of Christianity among the Chinese migrants and the Foochow community in Sibu, Tien's report sheds considerable light on the sociological experience of the Chinese of Sarawak. It has become a classic on the Chinese in Sarawak widely read and frequently quoted in the academic world. The report serves is a landmark research on Sarawak Chinese and provides insights on the social structure of Sarawak Chinese during the British colonial period.