Chinese southern diaspora studies_Issue 5 (for Volume 5)
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5
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5
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2011
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1834-609X
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Editor's Introduction [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 5, 2011-2012]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2011) Lysa, Hong; Kian, Kwee Hui; Lysa, Hong; Kian, Kwee Hui
编者的话 [Volume 5, 2011-2012]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2011) Lysa, Hong; Kian, Kwee Hui; Lysa, Hong; Kian, Kwee Hui
Biography and Representation: A Nanyang University Scholar and Her Configuration of the Sinophone Intelligentsia in Singapore
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2011) Huang, Jianli; Lysa, Hong; Kian, Kwee Hui
This study uses the corpus of writings and range of activities of a Nanyang University scholar as the lens to refract the transfiguration of the Chinese-educated intelligentsia in Singapore over five decades of English-educated PAP hegemony. It is a weaving of biography and representation, bringing to the forefront Lee Guan Kin©s educational experience and public intellectual activism, and pairing these with her scholarly analysis of them. Her insider©s perspective would allow for a greater appreciation of the dilemma, anguish, aspirations and intra-dynamics of this segment of the Chinese community amidst the larger national environment of declining Chinese language competency.
"Flesh and Bone Reunite as One Body": Singapore's Chinese-speaking and their Perspectives on Merger
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2011) Thum, Ping Tjin; Lysa, Hong; Kian, Kwee Hui
Singapore©s Chinese speakers played the determining role in Singapore©s merger with the Federation. Yet the historiography is silent on their perspectives, values, and assumptions. Using contemporary Chinese-language sources, this article argues that in approaching merger, the Chinese were chiefly concerned with livelihoods, education, and citizenship rights; saw themselves as deserving of an equal place in Malaya; conceived of a new, distinctive, multiethnic Malayan identity; and rejected communist ideology. Meanwhile, the leaders of UMNO were intent on preserving their electoral dominance and the special position of Malays in the Federation. Finally, the leaders of the PAP were desperate to retain power and needed the Federation to remove their political opponents. The interaction of these three factors explains the shape, structure, and timing of merger. This article also sheds light on the ambiguity inherent in the transfer of power and the difficulties of national identity formation in a multiethnic state.
The Chinese of Singapore and their imperial Second World War 1939 - 1945
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2011) Koh, Ernest; Lysa, Hong; Kian, Kwee Hui
While much has been written on the experiences of the Chinese community in Singapore during the Japanese invasion and occupation of the colony, the war remains primarily cast as the first act of a story that culminates in sovereign nationhood. Yet this teleological narrative of social connection only presents one face of the island©s Second World War history, one that is driven primarily by the need to forge a cohesive national story of the past. There is a need for historians to consider the plural experiences of the Second World War to break out of the ideology of the nation-state that encloses the historiography of Singapore in a way that structures historical thinking. This paper focuses on members of the Chinese community in Singapore who were oriented towards the notion of empire. It proposes to advance the historiographical discussion by using a body of unused sources to trace the contours of a very different political landscape. Using a combination of oral history interviews and archival sources, it examines the wartime lives of three individuals to consider absent frames of the conflict as experienced by members of the Chinese community.
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