The Fuzhou People in Sarawak: Chinese Network Community in Sibu
Chinese immigrants arrival in 1900 at Sibu Sibu is an old and well-known place for its Chinese decedents throughout Southeast Asia. This city is also known as New Fuzhou because of its majority Chinese people are initially came from Fuzhou, Fujian province in Mainland China around 100 years ago. Fujian people are divided to ten groups in China. There are Minhou, Minqing,. Changle, Fuqing, Pingtan, LianJiang, Luoyuan, Yongtai and two groups in Ningde - Gutian and Pingnan. In Sibu there are basically most of the Fuzhou people gathered from Minqing and Gutian. According to Gordon Redding in his book "The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism", there are two main pillars for a formation of Chinese overseas in the world. First it refers to the family education and background of Chinese tradition that he called it Paternalism. Second he argues that insecurity is one of the characteristics of Chinese overseas. The insecurity refers to some difficulties or hurdles encountered by Chinese...