英国战后马来亚政策的演变及其影响

英国战后马来亚政策的目的,在于加强和延长在马来亚的殖民统治,为此采取的各种政策,不仅影响着马来亚的独立进程,对独立后马来西亚的族群关系和政治发展也产生了非常深刻的影响。本文将着重探讨战后英国对马政策的目的,研究殖民政府为加强或延长对马殖民统治所采用的多种手法,及其对独立后马来西亚族群关系和政治发展的影响。     

马来亚华人抗日武装与马来亚联盟公民权计划

太平洋战争时期, 英国殖民当局针对马来亚地区制定了马来亚联盟计划及马来亚联盟公民权计划。英国制定公民权计划主要是由于下列因素的影响: 第一, 主要由华人参与、由马共领导的抗日武装力量受到英国的高度重视, 面对马共提出的政治权利要求, 英国绝不可漠然视之, 公民权计划与此密切相关; 第二, 给予马来亚华人所谓的“政治权利”, 有利于切断当地华人与中国的联系,抵消中国政府对马来亚华人的影响; 第三, 由于马来苏丹不愿承认当地华人的政治身份, 解决华人的政治地位问题成为英国剥夺马来苏丹主权的一个有利的借口。由于华人政策和公民权计划中包含着许多种族不平等甚至容易引起种族纷争的内容, 因此, 英国制定这一计划与其说是要促进马来亚各民族的融合不如说是要在马来亚各民族间制造新的障碍, 也很难说英国制定这一计划是为马来亚自治做准备。     

An ecology of postcoloniality: disciplining nature and society in Malaya, 1948–1957

This paper examines the territorialization of the Malayan rainforest by the British colonial authorities during the Malayan Emergency in the decade prior to political independence in 1957. Through the events of the Emergency the Malaysian rainforest was constructed as a space of fear and violence in opposition to the orderly rule of the state. Disassociation from the forest was the visible criterion of good or bad, and the struggle over land became recast as a moral struggle between good (the state) and bad (the Communists). The military campaign in the forest was accompanied by legislation designed to control and discipline the Malayan population in the urban areas especially those expelled from the forests and forcibly incarcerated in the ‘New Villages’. The result was an ecology that allowed the most efficient monopoly of violence by the state and of the means to discipline its subject-citizens.     

St John's Ambulance Brigade and the Gendering of ‘Passive Defence’ in British Malaya, 1937–42

The St John's Ambulance Brigade established itself in British Malaya in the 1930s, as part of efforts to mobilise and train the colony's subjects for civil defence as the geo‐strategic climate in the Pacific deteriorated. This article demonstrates how the provision of emergency medical care was a gendered and racialised undertaking in the colonial context. Unlike the military, comprising mainly European and ‘trusted’ ethnic Indian soldiers, the realm of ‘passive defence’ was identified as a feminised undertaking for women and ethnic Chinese men who were considered to be either too vulnerable or too disloyal to bear arms. The rapid advance of Japan's military in south‐east Asia violently shattered such social boundaries, as many women and non‐European volunteers found themselves exposed by retreating Allied forces to the Japanese offensive and took up duties at posts from which their European supervisors had been forced to desert. Mainstream military historiography has often been highly gendered towards what is considered as the male‐dominated public domain of the battlefield. In this respect, the involvement of the St John's Ambulance Brigade reveals the process in which colonial ethno‐gender identities and hierarchies were being established, appropriated and subsequently subverted by the exigencies of the war in British Malaya.