記憶先輩、想像我族,及其空間化隱喻--新、馬、泰華人傳記之比較研究

Project: Government MinistryMinistry of Science and Technology

Project Details

Description

When the Singaporean government is more confident dealing with the issue of "Chineseness," how have they remembered the pre-war history of Singapore and the Chinese figures of British colonial times? Has memories of "ancestors" per se been part of the political needs of Singaporean nation-building? This study has found that memories of Chinese figures in earlier times are part of a larger historical narrative. Therefore, this study explores how local scholarship has remembered Chinese ancestors who had never imagined an independent "Singapore" and yet made significant contributions which paved the way for a future Singapore.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date2019/08/012021/01/31

Keywords

  • Chinese Singaporean; memory; Straits Settlement; Baba; Chinese immigrants; nation-building

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