| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 歷史學系 === 97 === As the propaganda of the KMT ( KUOMINGTANG,) says “ Overseas Chinese is the mother of the revolution”, KMT has always been emphasizing the contribution of Overseas Chinese and their loyalty to the regime in the early republican era. The Chinese civil war broke out after the end of WWII. KMT fought against the Chinese Communist Party, defeated, and retreated to Taiwan in n 1949.The KMT government in Taiwan facing various challenges struggling to survive then, once again turned to the Overseas Chinese for support.
The amount of Malayan Chinese was the biggest among the donations during the Sino-Japanese War, and Malaya and Singapore were also the regions where KMT operated actively after WWII. Therefore, my thesis chooses Malaya and Singapore as the research object and examines the diplomacy, party affairs, and Overseas Chinese policy of R.O.C, which the ruling party was KMT, in these states during the postwar period (1945-1949) and the pre-independent years of Malaya (1950-1957).
The diplomacy and Overseas Chinese policy of the KMT government in Malaya and Singapore during postwar period (1945-1949) was led and executed by the resident embassy mainly focused on demobilization, Chinese education, and protection of Overseas Chinese. Due to the lack of sufficient funding and the distraction of the Chinese civil war, KMT did not achieve much during this period. However, KMT’s affairs were on the summit of its operation during this period.
In the pre-independent years, foreign policies of the KMT government were carried out in the form of secret and civil diplomacy seeking the establishment of official ties with the to-be-independent Malaya and Singapore. As for the implementation of overseas Chinese policy, under the guideline of ‘No Chinese education, no overseas Chinese affairs’, the Malayan KMT members worked with the Overseas Compatriot Committee concentrated on the local Chinese education movement. Nevertheless, the KMT Malayan branch faced its serious blow as it was banned in 1949 and this result to huge recession on party members, open activities, organization operation. The KMT could only rely on overseas members to organized anti-communist activities and various festivities to express their support. Unfortunately, these efforts could not contribute to the KMT survival at the dawn of the Independence of Malaya and Singapore.
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