抗战时期马来亚外汇统制下的侨汇与侨捐

In Face of a Foreign Currency Regulation System:Remittances and Donations of ChineseI mmigrants in Malaya during the Resistance War Against Japanese Aggression

抗战时期,海外华侨的侨汇与侨捐是中国外汇的重要来源。包括新加坡在内的马来亚侨汇侨捐,对支持抗战所起的作用尤值得重视。不过,英国海峡殖民地政府对于马来亚的外汇统制在欧战爆发后不断加码,严重影响了侨汇侨捐的流通,也影响了抗战中外汇资金流入国内。对此,国民政府及华侨与马来亚当局进行了各层面的交涉乃至抗议,但效果甚微。随着二战局势的演进,直到太平洋战争爆发前夕,马来亚当局逐步放开外汇管制,侨汇和侨捐问题才得以较好地解决。

Remittances and donations of overseas Chinese immigrants were important sources of foreign currency for China during its resistance war against Japanese aggression.Remittances and donations of Chinese immigrants in Malaya and their contributions to China’s war efforts were in particular worthy of in-depth research.However,the British authorities in the Straits Settlements imposed an increasingly strict regulations on foreign currency after the outbreak of the war in Europe,gravely restricting the remittances and donations of Chinese immigrants and hampering the flow of foreign currency into China during China’s Resistance War against Japanese Aggression.The Nationalist Government raised this matter with the British colonial authorities in Malaya and even made public protests,but to no avail.It was not until the eve of the outbreak of the Pacific War that the British authorities in Malaya finally relaxed its tight regulation on foreign currency,paving the way for the free flow of remittances and donations by Chinese immigrants in Malaya into China.