Dissertation submitted in part fulfilment for the MA degree in Education of the University of London Institute of Education, September 1971 (138 pp.)

Contents:

Abstract, p. 2. Introduction, p. 6

Part 1 - Background factors:

1 The Chinese in Sarawak, 17

2 Educational background in the ancestral land, 34

Part 2 - Education during the period of Rajah James Brooke, 1841-1868:

1 James Brooke and the Anglican mission, 45

2 Early mission schools and the Chinese, 50

Part 3 - Education during the period of Rajah Charles Brooke, 1868-1917

1 Towards the formalisation of an educational policy, 54

2 Mission education and educational policy, 60

3 Government lay schools - Sarawak College, 66

4 The Chinese and the mission schools, 75

5 Factors accounting for the rise of Chinese vernacular schools, 81

Part 4 - Education during the period of Rajah Vyner Brooke, 1917-1941

1 Education policy and administration, 91

2 The Chinese and mission schools, 105

3 The Chinese school system, 110

Conclusion, p. 128.

Bibliography, p. 133.

Addendum, p. 138

In his abstract, Bruton says: 'This study explains the development of Chinese education in Sarawak in the terms of interaction between Brooke educational policy and practice; historical- structural aspects of the Chinese communities; Chinese traditional education; external constraints arising from educational and political change in China ... A major conclusion is that Brooke education and economic policies had the manifest and latent functions of creating structural inequalities which are of enduring significance for Sarawak today'