讲座主标题:“北婆罗洲的客家基督信徒移民：华人移民东南亚的特例”

讲座人:Danny WONG教授

讲座地点:北京大学人文学苑5号楼历史学系地下B113会议室

讲座开始时间:2014-03-24 17:00:00

讲座结束时间:2014-03-24 01:00:00

讲座人介绍:

Danny Wong Tze Ken is currently Director of Global Planning & Strategy Centre, University of Malaya. He is also Professor of History at the University of Malaya where he teaches history of Indochina and Southeast Asia. His research interests include history of Champa, Sabah and the Chinese in Malaysia. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University (2010), Visiting Scholar, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University (2009 & 2010), Visiting Scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge University (2008), Visiting Lecturer at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1998) and Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute (2008-2011). Among his publications are: Historical Sabah: The War (2010), The Nguyen and Champa during 17th and 18th Century (2007), Historical Sabah: Community and Society (2004), The Transformation of an Immigrant Society: a Study of the Chinese of Sabah (1998) and Vietnam-Malaysia Relations during the Cold War (1995). He is also Director of the Institute of China Studies and Head of the Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya.

讲座内容介绍:

There are certain features that are common to the process of Chinese migration to Southeast Asia. Among others, they include being dominated by single male migrants, many of whom were labourers working in tin or gold mines, organized in clan or dialect-based organisations, and being practitioners of Chinese religion or beliefs. Apart from the labourers, others would be the businessmen and tradesmen. Seldom does one find a different situation or circumstances that differ from those mentioned above. Yet during the late 19th century and the turn of the 20th century, two distinctive Christian groups emigrated from China to Southeast Asia, namely, to the northern part of the island of Borneo – the first group came under the aegis of the Basel Missionary Society in 1882 to British North Borneo (present day Sabah) and the second group under the Methodist mission in 1901 to Sibu in Sarawak. Their arrivals marked the beginning of the development of two very distinctive Chinese Christian communities in these states which later became part of Malaysia. The circumstances of their migration and their subsequent development as a community, when set against the broader picture of Chinese migration abroad, provided some unique points for comparison. This seminar will focus on the Hakka Christians of North Borneo (Sabah) by tracing the source of their origins and the circumstances of their arrivals in North Borneo and their subsequent development. Finally, this seminar will attempt to position this group of Hakka Christians within the larger context of Hakka Christians migration in the world.