“I bequeath the residue of my estate” : intergenerational change, contestation and conflict in a Straits Chinese family, 1863 to 1917

In this paper, I examine how the legal contestations among the descendants of the prominent nineteenth century Straits Chinese merchant Tan Kim Seng show that a family’s unity is hard to maintain and even harder to perpetrate across generations. By drafting out a legal will that incorporated clear i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sim, Tng Kwang
Other Authors: Koh Keng We
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73599