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Chew, Wendy Poh Yoke. "Consuming femininity : nation-state, gender and Singaporean Chinese women." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0135.

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My research seeks to understand ways in which English-educated Chinese women in cosmopolitan Singapore bolstered their identity while living under the influences of Confucian values, patriarchal nation-building and racial concerns. My thesis examines women who have themselves been lost in translation when they were co-opted into the creation of a viable state after 1965. Often women are treated as adjuncts in the patriarchal state, particularly since issues of gender are not treated with the equality they deserve in the neo-Confucian discourse. This thesis takes an unconventional approach to how women have been viewed by utilizing primary sources including Her World and Female magazines from the 1960s and 1990s, and subsequent material from the blogosphere. I analyze images of women in these magazines to gain an understanding of how notions of gender and communitarianism/race intersect. By looking at government-sponsored advertising, my work also investigates the kind of messages the state was sending out to these women readers. My examination of government-sponsored advertisements, in tandem with the existing mainstream consumer advertising directed at women provides therefore a unique historical perspective in understanding the kinds of pressures Singaporean women have faced. Blogging itself is used as a counterpoint to show how new spaces have opened up for those who have felt constricted in certain ways by the authorities, women included. It would be fair to say that women?s magazines and blogging have served as ways for women to bolster their self worth, despite the counter-argument that some highly idealized and unhealthy images of women are purveyed. The main target group of glossy women?s magazines is English-educated women readers who are, by virtue of the Singapore?s demographics, mostly Chinese.

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Tan, Doreen Seng Keow. "Guanxi as a basis of managerial morality among Singaporean Chinese managers." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274270.

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Tan, Donald. "The impact of numeric sub-branding on Singaporean Chinese consumers : a conjoint analysis." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Management, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0029.

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[Truncated abstract] It has been argued that the demand for a product is largely dependent on price and quality (Dodds, Monroe & Grewal, 1991) and that it is possible to provide a global product with a universal brand, as consumers desire reliable and quality products at low prices (Levitt, 1983). As global companies extend their reach around the world and such “global” products become available world wide, it is important for marketers to understand if other factors play a significant role in consumers’ purchase processes, especially in Asia where cultural and social influences can be very different from Western societies . . . Since numerology is deeply rooted in Chinese culture, the present study was undertaken to examine the impact that two important numbers (4 and 8) had on Chinese consumers’ value perceptions when used in sub-brand extensions. These numbers were chosen as Ang (1997) had noted the numbers represented “death” (4) and “prosperity” (8) in Chinese numerology and, consequently, may have a negative or positive impact on the value Chinese consumers attach to a product. While there are many types of products available to consumers and possible juxtapositions of numbers are almost endless, the present study was restricted to examining the impact that the numbers 4 and 8 had on the value Chinese consumers attached to cars and mobile phones to ensure the study was manageable. The study was undertaken in Singapore, but it was hoped that the results could be translated to other Chinese markets so more cost-effective and efficient approaches could be developed for such markets.

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Chia, Liang. "Language shift in a Singaporean Chinese family and the matrix language frame model." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365765.

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Chin, Ming Shu. "When not all is well : outcomes of Singaporean Chinese very low birth weight children in mainstream primary schools." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30995.

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Advances in perinatal care in the past decade have resulted in the increased survival of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. These are children born with a birth weight of less than 1500 grams. The mortality and immediate morbidity, that is clear neurodevelopmental deficits such as cerebral palsy, of these infants are well documented. However, less is reported about the VLBW children who may not be obviously neurologically or intellectually deficient but experience various problems in mainstream primary schools nonetheless. Underlying this study is the concern that some of the difficulties faced by local VLBW children were obscured during the period of follow-up and that they were viewed as progressing "well' based primarily on apparently normal outcomes such as average test scores. In her capacity as a psychologist involved in the multi-disciplinary follow-up of VLBW children from two to eight years old, the author has gathered information on a sample of 107 Singaporean VLBW children of ethnic Chinese origin. Using methodological as well as investigator triangulation, quantitative and qualitative results are reported. The survey method was used to obtain the former while the latter were elicited by the case study approach. In addition, the case studies of seven VLBW children with different experiences were included. Whilst the findings are in general agreement with the published literature, the limitations of the study coupled with Singaporean factors at play meant that they may not be entirely representative of the local VLBW population at large. It is anticipated, however, that the findings will provide the reader with a deeper understanding of how Singaporean Chinese VLBW children in mainstream schools are functioning on the whole. It is also hoped that this study will serve as a signpost for future VLBW follow- up work in Singapore.

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Gysler, Andreas. "Chinese market entry possibility by the means of Joint Ventures An analysis of the viability for a Swiss small and medium enterprise from the machine, electrical & metal industry to form a Joint Venture with a Singaporean partner in order to enter the Chinese machine market /." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02601102002/$FILE/02601102002.pdf.

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伍榮仲 and Wing-chung Vincent Ng. "Huiguan: regional institutions in the development of overseas Chinese nationalism in Singapore, 1912-41." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31207856.

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Lee, Chai-yen. "An error analysis of Singapore's secondary school student's Chinese language compositions." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37274338.

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Heng, Teck-Kin. "Overseas Chinese capitalism and globalisation : Chinese businesses, entrepreneurship and economic development in Singapore /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16938.pdf.

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Chey, Chor Khoon. "Cultural acclimatisation: Foreign students studying in a private educational institution in Singapore." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/308.

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This Portfolio aims to examine the problems of acclimatisation and coping strategies of such foreign students. A sample of tweleve students was chosen from Chinese students studying at one private educational institution in Singapore. Drawing on the findings of Furnham (1997) and Murphy-Lejenne (2002), among others, the present study looks at the reasons why the participants decided to travel overseas, why they chose Singapore as their destination, what problems they encountered while here, and how they coped with the problems. They were also asked what specific problems they encountered with the schools they enrolled in. It is the contention of the present study that school has a major influenceon their overall acclimatisation. Suggestions were sought from the participants on ways they thought the school could help make their stay here more successful The in-depth interviews found that the main problem encountered by the Chinese students were with accommodation, student agents, school, language, and the :attitude of the local populance towards them. To cope with their problem;, they relied on friends, and family for support and information, and used modern technology for communication. They expected the school to help them find suitable accommodation and practise higher standards of service. The present study concludes with recommendations for further actions needed by schools and government and areas for future research.

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Phee, Bob E. S. "A study of the problems of Chinese Christian marriages in Singapore." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Leung, Mann-yan Frances. "A selective look at Chinese voluntary associations and schools in Singapore and Thailand." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1347456X.

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Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin. "From Cradle to Playpen: the management of Chineseness in developmental state Singapore." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49385.

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The way Chineseness is managed by the state in ethnic Chinese majority nations is examined as a late-industrializing initiative. Using Singapore as the case study, identifications with Chineseness were studied for the key themes within late-industrializing discourse constructions. Chinese Singaporean respondents were asked for their interpretation of Chineseness in relation to their Western expatriate and Chinese mainlander colleagues. In some cases, Orientalist constructions emerged. This inquiry found the moderating factors of Orientalist discourse replications to be the respondent’s childhood socioeconomic background and linguistic primacy. The findings lent insights to the persistence of Orientalist constructions amongst individuals in late-industrializing societies. Insights as to how late-industrializing discourses constructions are moderated by factors distinctive from first-mover ones were sought. These insights enrich the theoretical framework of nation branding studies, a recent offshoot of nation studies with a marketing slant. Sociological considerations on the reproduction of late-industrializing predispositions were integrated through the concept of marcotted developmentalism. Marcotted developmentalism is advanced as the thesis’ conceptual framework. It explains the mediation of the late-industrializing landscape by two distinctive features. Firstly, ethnic management initiatives communicate the urgency of accelerated economic development amongst late-industrializing societies. Secondly, it emphasizes the presence of dual hegemony (i.e. Western dominance and Chinese ascendency) within the late-industrializing political economy.

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Leung, Mann-yan Frances, and 梁曼茵. "A selective look at Chinese voluntary associations and schools in Singapore and Thailand." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195036X.

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Ng, Wing-chung Vincent. "Huiguan : regional institutions in the development of overseas Chinese nationalism in Singapore, 1912-41 /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12333633.

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Kuo, Huei-ying. "Transnational business networks and sub-ethnic nationalism Chinese business and nationalist activities in interwar Hong Kong and Singapore, 1919-1941 /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Thum, Pingtjin. "Chinese language political mobilisation in Singapore, 1953-63." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540183.

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Wong, Shengmiao Samuel. "Hua Yue : the Chinese Orchestra in contemporary Singapore." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14527/.

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The purpose of this study is to construct a comprehensive and authentic picture of the Chinese orchestral scene in Singapore by piecing its history and identifying the social characteristics and relationships within Chinese Orchestras (COs) In Singapore. Specifically, the dynamic interaction of the structural characteristics and the social processes within and without the COs, as well as its impact on the musicians, the orchestra and the quality of their work are analysed. This thesis shows that the formal structures, roles and tacit rules of interaction have not enabled COs in Singapore to produce music as a collective successfully and harmoniously. The disunity within the COs can be attributed to several factors identified in the research process. At the individual level, many of the professional CO musicians perceive that they are working in an oppressive environment characterised by excessive work with little creative stimulus and pay. Even CO musicians at the amateur level, especially school CO musicians, are not fulfilled creatively due to the absence of a nurturing learning environment. They lack enjoyable performance opportunities and suffer from stressful preparations for concerts and competitions. The CO musicians' unhappiness is also exacerbated by high levels of competitiveness and cliquishness within the COs. So instead of a unified CO, each CO is divided into microcommunities that are at odds with one another. Finally, external forces such as governmental agencies, schools and the general public exert a considerable influence over the existence and the development of these COs. Because of their focus on results, prestige and image, they have fostered an environment that is antithetical to the cultivation of love of CO among CO musicians at the amateur or professional levels.

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Goh, Seng Fong. "Effects of cultural nuances on witnessing strategies among the English-speaking Chinese adults in Singapore." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Lee, Chai-yen, and 李彩燕. "An error analysis of Singapore's secondary school student's Chinese language compositions." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37274338.

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Pee, Mary Teresa Lay Hoon. "The development of Chinese, Indian and Malay dance in Singapore to the 1970s." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35808/7/35808_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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Minting, Huang. "Chinese teacher thinking in Singapore : a socio-cultural perspective." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31005.

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This study sets out to describe Chinese teacher thinking in Singapore and explores it from a socio-cultural perspective, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including a survey, semi-structured interviews and metaphor analysis. The survey involves 162 respondents and 62 in-service Singapore Chinese teachers are interviewed. Metaphors arising spontaneously from the survey, the interviews and classroom discussions of teacher training sessions are identified and analyzed to make teacher thinking explicit. Four areas of Chinese teacher thinking in Singapore, that is, Singapore Chinese teachers' beliefs and perceptions about teaching, learning, students and themselves as Chinese teachers, are described and then examined within its socio- cultural context. This study finds eight major characteristics of Chinese teacher thinking in Singapore, which indicate a strong belief in: (1) the teaching of Chinese culture (2) the priority of moral education (3) the teacher/student hierarchy (4) the teaching of the text (5) the transmission model of teaching (6) the importance of examinations (7) the importance of motivation and effort in learning and (8) negative perception of themselves as Chinese teachers in Singapore. The study further shows that these characteristics of Chinese teacher thinking have deep roots in traditional Chinese educational thought and traditions and are embedded in the socio-linguistic and educational context of Singapore. The findings of this study help to identify the incongruence that exists between Chinese teacher thinking in Singapore and the theoretical assumptions underlying the more learner-centered communicative language teaching approach. This incongruence explains why some of the Chinese teachers in Singapore are reluctant to adopt the innovative teaching approach. This study suggests that a socio-cultural perspective is necessary in understanding teacher thinking, and that education reforms need to take socio-cultural contexts into consideration in order to be meaningful and successful. This study also demonstrates the validity of teacher metaphors in exploring teacher thinking.

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McClure, Joanne Wendy, and n/a. "The Experiences of Chinese International Postgraduates Studying in Singapore." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040218.082542.

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Postgraduate research presents particular challenges to students: self-management, independent research, extended writing, and working with a supervisor. If we add to these challenges those faced by international students - the complexity of a new culture, a new academic culture, and the difficulties of a second language - we begin to see the hurdles that such students must overcome. Postgraduate students are already well socialised into their discipline, its discourse, research, and methodology. However, when students undertake their study abroad, how easily do they 'fit' into their new environment? And in what ways does their previous disciplinary socialisation, clash with, or complement their new academic socialisation? Given the large numbers of Chinese international students studying abroad particularly at postgraduate level, a focus on individual student experiences was seen as important in advancing our understanding of these students' experiences and sensitising international providers of such education to the ways in which they may better respond to such students. The purpose of the study was to examine the experiences of Chinese international postgraduate students studying in Singapore to find out how they perceived their new learning environment, and to explore the coping strategies they employed to manage, understand and construct meaning out of their learning situation. The study also sought to focus on their particular learning needs, given their perception of their environment, and the ways in which higher education providers could best accommodate these needs. A qualitative constructivist methodology was used to examine the learning experiences and coping strategies of 12 Chinese international postgraduates balanced by gender and level of higher degree study involved. The students were interviewed twice over a five-month period, with each interview lasting approximately one hour. The study focused on understanding students' experiences of positive and negative incidents in their learning environment, on the construction of meaning around those incidents, and on students' subsequent responses to them. Potential differences across the variables of level of degree study, gender and marital status were also considered in the analysis. Four major themes were identified in the student experiences those of marginalisation: student/supervisory relationship, academic/organisational marginalisation, social marginalisation, and advantaging. The coping strategies identified are those of self-determination and technique. It was found that adjustment for students was most difficult in the first six to twelve months from entry into the new cultural context, largely due to the influence of previous educational and cultural experiences on expectations. Also highlighted was the range of interpersonal and intrapersonal coping strategies that students used to help manage their cultural transition. The importance of collegial support as a key coping strategy for international student adjustment was confirmed in the study. Self-determination was also shown to be a strong motivator for managing research work and interpersonal relationships. The research indicated a number of important differences between masters and doctoral students' experiences and highlighted differences concerning traditional gender roles. Implications arising from the study may inform intervention programmes that are directed to the points of tension identified in students' experiences. The tensions in student experiences may largely be understood in terms of unrealistic or unfulfilled expectations being brought to the new study context but grounded in the home culture. Addressing these needs may be seen in various ways, including: (1) changing student expectations to make them more realistic; (2) sensitising students in cross-cultural issues; (3) sensitising host university staff in understanding and responding to cross-cultural issues in students; (4) providing appropriate levels of support in dealing with issues as they arise; and (5) structuring opportunities for mutual support by students in the host institution. Further research is indicated into the investigation of the cultural transition experiences and coping strategies of other national or ethnic groups at postgraduate level. Investigation of the experiences of international Chinese students in other disciplines, other host countries, and at other education levels is also indicated.

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Lim, Lisa L. S. "Prosodic patterns characterising Chinese, Indian and Malay Singapore English." Thesis, University of Reading, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336687.

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Jamann, Wolfgang. "Chinese traders in Singapore : business practices und organizational dynamics /." Saarbrücken : Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik Breitenbach, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37498122d.

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Yim, Ching-ching, and 閻靖靖. "Transnational social spaces and transnationalism: a study on the new Chinese migrant community in Singapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46594401.

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Gupta, Anthea Fraser. "A study of the acquisition and use of interrogatives and questions in the English of pre-school Chinese Singaporeans." Thesis, University of York, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277209.

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Ho, Ping-ping, and 何冰冰. "The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills on Chinese reading acquisitions for Singapore students." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36924003.

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Ho, Ping-ping. "The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills on Chinese reading acquisitions for Singapore students." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36924003.

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Sun, Canlan. "Prevalence and incidence of, and risk factors for self-reported peptic ulcer in Singapore Chinese." access full-text, 1999. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/umi-r.pl?1397639.pdf.

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Leong, Ong Soon Jason. "Perceptions of mainland Chinese university students of studying in Singapore." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/435.

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This thesis investigates why Mainland Chinese university students choose to study in Singapore, and how they manage the experience. The study was guided by two research questions: (1) Why do university students from Mainland China choose to study in Singapore? (as opposed to elsewhere) and (2) How do Mainland Chinese university students manage the experience of studying in Singapore, a different cultural environment? The aim of the study and the research questions made an interpretivist paradigm with qualitative research methods most appropriate. The study also adopted a symbolic interactionist perspective, realising that people make sense of their lives and experiences through interaction with others around them. Grounded theory methods of data collection and analysis were used. Participants were 20 Mainland Chinese university students studying in the two main universities in Singapore, namely, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), including its affiliate, the National Institute of Education (NIE). Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and documents (diary entries) lasting 16 months. The grounded theory that emerged, called the theory of ‘selective pragmatism’, comprises a threefold typology of students and four categories, with the second category presented in two parts. The typology of participants conceptualises and labels the three groups as “the intellectuals”, “the opportunists” and “the loyalists”. The four categories are respectively: (1) Push Factors; (2a) Pull Factors (Other countries outside Mainland China, but excluding Singapore); (2b) Pull Factors (Singapore only); (3) Individual Resilience and (4) Future Intentions. The study shows how participants exercise choices and decisions in a pragmatic but selectively different way in responding to the two research questions. Three distinctively different patterns of responses emerge to form the basis of the threefold typology.

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Ling-yin, Lynn Ang. "A question of 'Chineseness' : the Chinese diaspora in Singapore 1819-1950s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2393.

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This thesis is a study of the Chinese diaspora in Singapore from 1819 to the 1950s. It begins by situating the diasporic subject in a historical context, highlighting some of the key moments in the diaspora's development, such as the advent of colonialism during the nineteenth century, and the formation of an ethnic enclave in the settlement. The discussion then calls into question the construction of the Chinese subject in colonial discourses, and interrogates the ways in which the diasporic population was constituted within the framework of colonialism. The main purpose has been to examine how the diaspora in Singapore has evolved, and to explore the adequacies, or inadequacies, of existing diasporic theories in the ways they relate to the Chinese experience. This is achieved by recapitulating the theoretical implications of existing diaspora frameworks, and questioning the tensions and limitations generated by such discourses. Simultaneously, this study takes into consideration the construction of a "Chinese identity", and does so by presenting possible ways of conceptualisng what it means to be "Chinese" for subjects of the diaspora. In discussing the extent to which the subject's sense of "self" and belonging has been shaped by its immigrant past, this research draws on and studies the writings, both literary and non-literary, that have emerged from the community. A central concern in all this is the identity and subjectivity of the diasporic subject, and the point here is that not every subject experiences diaspora in the same way, but that these alterities are important in the constitution and formation of a Chinese identity. As I note in the introduction, the issue of what it means to be Chinese, and indeed, the issue of home and belonging, is one that is always contested for people in the diasporic community, and the aim of this thesis has been to continually deconstruct the idea of a "single" Chinese diaspora, and to expose it as a heterogeneous, fragmented, and internally differentiated construction.

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Chen, Ee-san, and 陳玉珊. ""You play with me, then I friend you.": development of conditional constructions in Chinese-English bilingual preschool children inSingapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B24873196.

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Lee, Shereen. "A new taste of tradition : Chinese snacks and hawker-entrepreneurs in Singapore." Thesis, Curtin University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/486.

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Traditional Chinese snacks have been part of Chinese food culture for years but many types of snacks have been disappearing in Singapore as a result of globalization and modernization. Since the late 1990s, however, some types of Chinese snacks have become increasingiy popular as they are being marketed in new food retail spaces. In the 1940s, kaya toast started as an inexpensive breakfast snack for Chinese immigrants but has since evolved into a lifestyle snack enjoyed by Singaporeans at any time of the day. The growing popularity of kaya toast and some other types of snacks has revived the traditional Chinese snack food industry. This thesis examines the re-emergence of a traditional Chinese snack culture in Singapore. It discusses the history of traditional Chinese snacks, its continuity and the changing nature of Chinese snack foods in Singapore. Based on case studies conducted in 2005 with retailers of selected traditional Chinese snack foods, the study examines when such food enterprises in Singapore were established, why they were established and the ways in which they were able to survive in the highly competitive market for various kinds of snack foods. It examines the business characteristics and strategies of the new vendors by comparing them to traditional hawkers in the past. Techniques employed in this study include interviews, participant observation, spatial mapping and document analysis. The findings indicate that the adaptation of the retailers by fusing authentic recipes with new ingredients and flavours, using modern technology, adopting marketing techniques, using media promotion, as well as the offering of a diverse product mix and the setting up of numerous retail outlets have helped the new hawker-entrepreneurs to stay competitive in the growing snack food market in Singapore.

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Wimalasiri, J. S. "Value orientations of the Chinese in Singapore : Structure, content and implications." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377895.

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Goh, Kai Kok Sunny. "Chinese Indonesians pursuing Higher Education in Singapore : A Grounded Theory Approach." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9281.

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This study generates a substantive theory of how Chinese Indonesian undergraduates adapt themselves in a Singapore private university. This thesis adopts an interpretivistic perspective and engages grounded theory research methodology. The principal source of information is a series of in-depth individual and focus group interviews with a group of 20 participants, supplemented by their diary accounts of their study activities over a week-long period. The first major outcome of this study is the generation of the theory of Selective Accommodation that describes how these international students apply various social-psychological strategies based on their perceptions of their sojourn in a foreign country and on their future intentions. Their accommodation distinctiveness, on the one hand, is a response to the perceived political persecution they face as minorities in their home country and to their acquired Indonesian culture. On the other hand, their accommodation strategies are also facilitated by Singapore’s vision of becoming a global educational hub. The result was the derivation of five accommodation categories of push factors, pull factors, pliability, study mechanisms and future direction. The second major outcome that arises from the grounded theory approach is the development of a typology of Chinese Indonesians based on how they react to the five categories during their three-year tertiary courses. This typology consists of four Ideal Types of accommodation, namely ambassadors, adherents, achievers and apathetics. In short, this study provides a fresh perspective on how foreign students adapt to life on foreign soil in their own unique ways. At the same time, it has implications for the development of theory, practice and educational research in cross border student migration.

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Ng, Raye. "Corporate culture in Singapore : Chinese capitalism, societal characteristics and political economy." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539507.

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Rittersmith, Arielle A. "Convention, control and creativity : the case of Chinese medicine in Singapore." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540174.

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Sim, Seok-hwa, and 沈淑華. "The use of blogging to enhance the learning of chinese writing in secondary school students in Singapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40888022.

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Tan, Wei Xiong, and 陳煒雄. "A case study of primary school teachers' implementation of a new Chinese language curriculum designed by the Ministry ofEducation in Singapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44912961.

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Koh, Ernest Wee Song. "Singapore stories - language and class in Singapore : an investigation into the socio-economic implications of English literacy as a life chance among the Chinese of Singapore from 1945 to 2000." University of Western Australia. Asian Studies Discipline Group, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0196.

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This thesis is an investigation into the socio-economic effects of English literacy among the Chinese of Singapore between 1945 and 2000. Through the use of oral history, statistical evidence, and existing secondary literature on the conditions of everyday life in Singapore, it explores how English literacy as a life chance has played a key role in shaping the class structures that exist among the Chinese in Singapore today. Adopting a 'perspective from below', this study provides a historical account that surveys the experiences of everyday life in Singapore through the stories of everyday life. It seeks to present an account that more accurately reflects the nation's nuanced past through defining eras in Singapore's post-war history 'Singapore Stories' in the plural, as opposed to the singular. Viewing the impact of English literacy through the prism of Max Weber's concept of life chances allows an examination of the opportunities in the lives of the interviewees cited within by distinguishing between negotiated and corralled life chances. The overarching argument made by this study is that in the later stages of Singapore's postwar history and development, English literacy was a critical factor that allowed individuals to negotiate key opportunities in life, thus increasing the likelihood of socioeconomic mobility. For those without English literacy, the range of possibilities in life became increasingly restricted, corralling individuals into a less affluent economic state. While acknowledging the significance of structural forces, and in particular the shaping influence of industrialisation, economic policy, and social engineering, this study also demonstrates how regarding the Singapore Chinese as possessing a variety of distinguishing social and economic characteristics, all of which serve to segment the community as an ethnic group, adds a new and critical dimension to our academic understanding of the nation's social past and present. By locating areas of resistance and the development of life strategies by an individual or household, this thesis illustrates how language, literacy, and class operated within the reality of undefined and multilayered historical spaces among the Chinese of Singapore.

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Fong, Yiu Tung James. "Chinese language policy in Singapore : how it reflects the government's goals of economic development and multiculturalism." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2006. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/729.

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Fock, Siew Tong. "Inter-generation transitions in Chinese family businesses : key success factors in Singapore." Thesis, University of Bath, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398575.

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Lee, Shereen. "A new taste of tradition : Chinese snacks and hawker-entrepreneurs in Singapore." Curtin University of Technology, Division of Humanities, Department of Social Sciences, 2008. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118257.

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Traditional Chinese snacks have been part of Chinese food culture for years but many types of snacks have been disappearing in Singapore as a result of globalization and modernization. Since the late 1990s, however, some types of Chinese snacks have become increasingiy popular as they are being marketed in new food retail spaces. In the 1940s, kaya toast started as an inexpensive breakfast snack for Chinese immigrants but has since evolved into a lifestyle snack enjoyed by Singaporeans at any time of the day. The growing popularity of kaya toast and some other types of snacks has revived the traditional Chinese snack food industry. This thesis examines the re-emergence of a traditional Chinese snack culture in Singapore. It discusses the history of traditional Chinese snacks, its continuity and the changing nature of Chinese snack foods in Singapore. Based on case studies conducted in 2005 with retailers of selected traditional Chinese snack foods, the study examines when such food enterprises in Singapore were established, why they were established and the ways in which they were able to survive in the highly competitive market for various kinds of snack foods. It examines the business characteristics and strategies of the new vendors by comparing them to traditional hawkers in the past. Techniques employed in this study include interviews, participant observation, spatial mapping and document analysis. The findings indicate that the adaptation of the retailers by fusing authentic recipes with new ingredients and flavours, using modern technology, adopting marketing techniques, using media promotion, as well as the offering of a diverse product mix and the setting up of numerous retail outlets have helped the new hawker-entrepreneurs to stay competitive in the growing snack food market in Singapore.

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Wingfield, Valerie, and Valerie Wingfield. "Personal Identity Through Architecture in Singapore at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12316.

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People from many different ethnic backgrounds settled in Singapore over the course of the nineteenth century, making new lives for themselves on an island with very little recent human habitation. The homes they chose to build for themselves reflected new, sometimes aspirational, hybrid identities. A close observation of these structures helps to form a more complete picture of social conditions in turn of the century Singapore.

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Lui, Ching-ying Octavia, and 呂靜瑩. "The Chinese women of Hong Kong and Singapore: perspectives of change from the 1950s to the 1990s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195277X.

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Yang, Wei-an. "Female emancipation in a colonial context : the Chinese community in Singapore 1900-1942." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6382/.

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The advent of female Chinese immigrants was an important factor in shaping the Chinese community from an immigrant society into a stabilized community in Singapore at the beginning of the 20th century. Using a combination of Chinese language press and Colonial Office records, my study explores those primary sources to assess the voices of Chinese women, and examine how Chinese women were constituted as a group in the Chinese community during the colonial era. Chinese newspapers were an effective tool for disseminating information concerning nationalism in China as well as stirring up a consciousness of national identity within the Chinese community. Those activities carried out by the Kuomintang pushed forward the development of Chinese female education, and offered them opportunities to participate in the National Salvation Movement in the 1930s. On the other hand, three archetypes of Chinese woman - prostitutes, muitsais (domestic servants) and educated women - are introduced so as to examine their role in the formation of the Singapore Chinese community. The Colonial Office records are thus used to identify those Chinese female-related issues in order to examine the practices and attitudes of the British authorities with regard to the social ills within the Chinese community. The difference between the values of the western and eastern culture reflected in their policies towards these social problems among Chinese women, and how those social reforms represent the variation in Chinese females' family position and status in society throughout the colonial era will be discussed in my research.

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Lim, Jason. "Nationalism, tea leaves and a common voice : the Fujian-Singapore tea trade and the political and trading concerns of the Singapore Chinese tea merchants, 1920-1960." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0088.

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[Truncated abstract] Conventional historical research on the tea trade focussed on the trade between the United Kingdom and China up to 1937. Very little has been done on the tea trade between China and other regions such as colonial Singapore. In addition, the focus on the overseas Chinese community in Singapore has concentrated on two opposite ends of the social ladder the rich traders or merchants who came to dominate the political, economic and social life of the community, and the coolies or those in the working class and how the harsh reality of life in colonial Singapore often quashed any dreams they had of a better life. The key focus of this dissertation is a study of the trading links between a group of Chinese traders in Singapore and commodity producers in China. To date, research into Chinese traders in Singapore has focussed on their trade in products from British Malaya such as rubber and tin. This dissertation aims to steer away from this approach, and study the relationship between Fujian tea production and trade and the Chinese tea traders in Singapore . . . This dissertation, therefore, takes a two-pronged approach. First, it examines the conditions in Fujian tea production and trade since they were the key trading concerns of the Chinese tea traders in Singapore. Secondly, the dissertation examines the political beliefs and sense of patriotism among the Chinese tea traders in Singapore and their response to major events in their lives such as the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), the Japanese Occupation of Singapore (1942-1945), the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) and self-government for Singapore from June 1959.

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Soh, Choi Yin Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Cultural typologies and design meanings: a case study of Chinese media and entertainment websites from Singapore." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41561.

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The Internet offers new ways of imaging and 'imagining' national belonging and cultural identities in contemporary Chinese societies such as Singapore. The Chinese society is also a key representative in Tu Wei-Ming's first symbolic universe - including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - under a 'Cultural China' (Tu 1994). Various cultural discourses indicate that this nation-state is capable of managing culture to maintain national competitiveness within global capitalism (Wee 2000, Chua 1995). This 'local national cultural ism' is significantly manifested in Chinese media and entertainment websites from Singapore. Within the Asia Pacific region, the notion of an emerging 'pan-Chinese' cultural identity for commercial exchange and interaction with regional and global markers has been an appealing economic construct (Nyiri 1999). In Singapore the Chinese media and entertainment websites employ design strategies to attract foreign investors and cater for local 'heartlanders' with success. The Singapore media sire is carefully scrutinized, presented and aligned with its economic policies and agendas in presenting the country as a young and vibrant society. Although media and entertainment form a key aspect of popular culture in contemporary Singapore, the visual communication and content of the websites also provide an 'institutional memory' and design strategies which emphasize the distinctiveness of cultural identity. This is research interrogates the perception of 'Chinese' identity by Singaporean youth in a pilot study which analyses user responses to a prototype for interface design in web-based communication. In addition, a comparative analysis of three design components - colour, icon/symbol and visual metaphor ??? is examined with reference to the social construction of local, 'glocal' and cultural meanings in the media and entertainment websites-from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. The research concurs with current literature that cultural identity is mediated by design and communicative strategies to resonate with the target audience. Although the design strategies for representing a 'pan -Chinese' identity have yet to be explored, 'Cultural China' plays a major role in regional/global economic development.

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Diver, Andrew Patrick. "A queer history of Chinese migration : Singapore, San Francisco, and mainland China, c.1850 - the present." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709192.

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