2024寰宇漢學講座

講者：林捷勝（Jason Lim，澳洲伍倫貢大學人文社會學院副教授）

講題：從臺灣視角如何看新加坡1955年至1965年的政治發展（Taiwan’s perspectives of political developments in Singapore,1955-1965）
主持人：楊昊（國立政治大學東亞研究所教授）

時間：2024年5月22日（週三）14:00-15:30

地點：國家圖書館藝文中心301會議室（臺北市中山南路20號）

備註：本場演講以中、英文進行

演講摘要：

在20世紀50年代，隨著幾個東南亞國家在冷戰期間開始去殖民化進程，臺灣為了在與中華人民共和國的外交角力中贏得新盟友，並遏制共產主義的擴散，積極推行了反共議程。國民黨政府也自視為所有海外華人的代表，而新加坡尤其引人關注，因為其75%的人口是華裔。本次演講將聚焦國民黨對新加坡的兩大關切：政治發展（包括共產黨活動和被感知的中華人民共和國影響）以及華人族群。並將探討國民黨政府如何監控新加坡的去殖民化過程，從1955年新加坡勞工黨大選獲勝，1959年脫離英國獲得自治，到1963年加入馬來西亞，以及印尼通過對抗行動做出的回應，直至1965年8月獨立成國為止。

In the 1950s, as several Southeast Asian states began the process of decolonization during the Cold War, Taiwan pursued an active anticommunist agenda in the region to win new allies in a diplomatic tussle with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and to contain the spread of communism. The KMT government also considered itself as the representative of all overseas Chinese, and Singapore is of particular interest as 75 per cent of its population is ethnic Chinese. My presentation will be on the KMT’s two major concerns about Singapore: its political developments (including communist activities and perceived PRC influences), and the ethnic Chinese. I will examine how the Kuomintang (KMT) government in Taiwan monitored the decolonization process in Singapore, starting with the election of the Labour Front in 1955. I will examine how the KMT government viewed internal politics in Singapore, the road towards full autonomy from the British in 1959, joining Malaysia in 1963 and Indonesia’s response through Confrontation, and independence in August 1965.

主講人簡介：
林捷勝（Jason Lim）博士是澳洲伍倫貢大學（University of Wollongong）人文社會學院亞洲歷史學門副教授。在進入學術界之前，曾在新加坡國家檔案館擔任助理檔案館員和口述歷史研究員。其研究興趣包括冷戰期間的東南亞以及二戰後新加坡華族的歷史。林教授學術著作包括關注新加坡中國茶商的《Linking an Asian Transregional Commerce in Tea》（2010），以及講述了新加坡三輪客車行業之興衰的《A Slow Ride into the Past》（2013），並發表過關於新加坡華族歷史和冷戰期間臺灣與東南亞的關係的文章。林教授目前擔任新加坡南洋理工大學華人遺產中心國際顧問委員會委員，並於2022年當選為英國皇家歷史學會院士。

Jason Lim is Senior Lecturer in Asian History at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the National Archives of Singapore as an assistant archivist and oral history researcher. His research interests include Southeast Asia during the Cold War and the history of the Chinese community in Singapore after World War II. His works include Linking an Asian Transregional Commerce in Tea (2010), focussing on Chinese tea merchants in Singapore, and A Slow Ride into the Past (2013) on the rise and collapse of the trishaw industry in Singapore. He has also published articles on the history of the Chinese community in Singapore and Taiwan’s relationship with Southeast Asia during the Cold War. He serves as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Chinese Heritage Centre at Nanyang Technological University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022.


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