張蘭臣と激動期のタイ華僑

Abstract

How does the Peking or the Taipei Government influence over the Chinese in Southeast Asia? What kinds of response do the Chinese in Southeast Asia make for changing international circumstance? Do they have anti-Japanese attitude against the increasing Japanese economic power in the region or not? For giving answers to these questions, the author in the paper examines critically on behavior patterns of the Chinese, laying emphasis on a life-history of Chang Lan-chen, former Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Thailand. Although it is a hard matter to generalize patterns of behavior through a study of life-history, it may safely be said that 1) the conflict of ideas by social stratification, generation gap and urban-rural differences within a Chinese society is an important core of the questions mentioned above, 2) Chinese leaders of the economic circle have to co-operate with political measures of their government where they live, in order to continue their business activities under the protection of the government, 3) and yet the conflict of ideas always exists within their own society in transition.