Study of United Chinese Association SibuDivison Sarawak （1977-1997）

• Main Authors: Tsung-Yuan Chen, 陳琮淵
• Other Authors: 黃建淳
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49033937051931983644

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 東南亞研究所碩士班 === 93 === The United Chinese Association Sibu Division Sarawak, known as UCA Sibu, established in 1977. In fact, the UCA Sibu is the first provincial Chinese association and it is contributive to the politics, economics, Chinese education, and public interests in Sarawak. Besides, the UCA Sibu is already a famous association among Sarawak Chinese. Accordingly, this study is focused on the UCA Sibu, covering the 1977-1997 period. However, these kind of Chinese parties and voluntary associations have been long existed in the Sarawak Chinese society. Therefore, we are dying of curiosity to know why this kind of association exists, when it came into being, what the historical background of it was, what its importance and meaning are, and what the relations among it and the Chinese parties or the voluntary associations are. These questions are really interest. In order to answer the questions above-mentioned, we analyze the development of the voluntary associations by the history of Sarawak and the types of these associations. Basically, it is helpful to understand the background and significance of the UCA Sibu with this sort of macro-aspects. We hope to evaluate the UCA Sibu fairly via some acquaintance with the structures and working models of Sarawak Chinese associations, and furthermore, we want to present the changes of the Chinese associations in Sarawak by a discussion on the UCA Sibu. Documentary-historical method, fieldwork, and history sociology are applied to this study to explain the causal relation. After World War Ⅱ, the development of the UCA Sibu have been affected by politics, economics, and culture of Sarawak; then changed the UCA Sibu because of these factors. It proved that the factors of external environment would make changes in associations of humankind; hence, we analyze the trend of the development of Sarawak’s society by these factors to comprehend the historical background of the UCA Sibu. In addition, .the internal system and the external network of the UCA Sibu is also one of the key points in this study. Finally, we analyze the social activities, which the UCA Sibu did, to outline its unique status in the Sarawak Chinese society. The UCA Sibu has the particularities in history and geography; besides, it is representative of the studies of the overseas Chinese associations. We intended to give some supplementaries to the related field of it by analyzing the historical data and theories. We analyze the changes of the Chinese associations in Sarawak from the angle of history and sociology, and we hope to provide some different perspectives and vision to Sarawak people.