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Kartomi, Margaret J. "The Musical History of the Jewish Community in Singapore." Bärenreiter Verlag, 2000. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A36679.
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Ang, Daphne Ming Li. "Constructing Singapore art history : portraiture and the development of painting and photography in colonial Singapore (1819-1959)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2017. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26662/.
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Havers, R. P. W. "Changi : from myth to history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272826.
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Langenbach, Ray, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and Centre for Cultural Research. "Performing the Singapore state 1988-1995." THESIS_CAESS_CCR_Langenbach_W.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/576.
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This dissertation explores performances in Singapore as indicators of divergent visions of the nation-state. To understand the ways in which the government and artists contested (or, in some cases, agreed to not contest) the cultural ground requires an examination of performance as a semiotic mode in public life, a genre in art, and an instrument of cultural politics. A study of performance alone cannot sufficiently reveal the subtleties of governmental and artistic agency. The government and artists have mobilized specific figures of speech from a repertoire developed over centuries.These tropes are analysed for their uses, their performative instrumentality, and their discursive power. Tropes and performances coalesce and disseminate prevailing national, regional,and global ideologies. This study examines the power of aesthetic forms, and the aesthetics of power. Competing notions of performance in Singapore led to a cultural crisis in 1993-94. That historical punctum and its ramifications constitutes the primary object of this research, and is presented as a significant indicator of the state of the Singapore state at that time.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Thuraisingam, Pamela Chellappah. "Nature of talk and interaction in the Singapore history classroom." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1316.
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History is a complex subject. It is more propositional than procedural in nature (Nichol, 1984), and involves adductive thinking (Booth, 1983), where historical evidence and facts are 'teased out' and a convincing account of the past is then reconstructed through speculation, imagination and empathy (Nichol, 1984; Booth, 1983). The teaching and learning of history should not just be the transmission of knowledge, but rather it should involve a process whereby students and teachers interact in order to analyze evidence, raise questions and hypotheses, synthesize facts, and communicate their ideas, understand others' viewpoints, consider values, reflect and engage in moral reasoning (Brophy, 1996). It is through this interaction that development of thinking in history will occur (Coltnam, 1975). The main focus of the research is on the language used in the history classroom, particularly during critical episodes when the teachers and students appeared to be engaged in the process of historical thinking. This research is particularly concerned with historical thought embedded in the language used in history classrooms. To investigate this, both high and low inference coding systems were adopted to code, describe and analyze the verbal behaviour that occurred. The data were gathered in six classes from schools in Singapore. They constituted two classes of above average students (Special stream), two classes of average students (Express stream) and two classes of below average (Normal stream) students. Audio and video recordings were made of two lessons from each of the six classes. These lessons were transcribed, coded and analyzed to ascertain which contexts were more conducive for the production of higher order thought. It was found that a complex interrelationship of factors including pedagogic activity, type of teacher talk and student talk, and even more importantly the interaction between them, determined whether or not there was historical thinking. The findings revealed that there was historical thinking when explicit and implicit contact was established during interaction between the teacher and the students. For explicit contact to he made the teacher and the students needed to be language game (Wittgenstein, 1972). This is where the teacher made those moves that elicited student responses that demonstrated historical thinking. For implicit contact to be made the element of voice (as in the concept of “voice” described in Bakhtin's theory on the dual-voicing and polyphony) becomes essential. During such episodes the teacher mediated between the characters in history, his or her own talk and that of the students. These responses which were often dramatised, the teacher used first and second person forms (dual voicing) to evoke empathy and imagination. In doing so they also engaged in a dialogic interaction with the characters of the past and there was back channelling. There were evidences of such dialogues in all the Special, Express and Normal stream lessons but in various contexts. These dialogues reveal that the nature of talk and interaction is distinct to the subject history.
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Wai, Benny Lim Kok. "The human lefts series : postmodern self-reflexivity and post-independence Singaporean theater." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2012. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/the-human-lefts-series-postmodern-selfreflexivity-and-post-independence-singaporean-theater(3fb839d9-511f-4735-abb5-b800165e0caf).html.
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This critical review serves as a significant formal documentation of the postmodern self-reflexive theatre in the postmodern and post-independence Singapore. Through the Human Lefts Series, which I conceptualised and performed between 2005 and 2009, we are able to look at postmodern Singapore theatre beyond issues relating to the loss of cultural and historical past, which might not be significant for those who were born after 1965. The situation is such that, currently, there is no formal documentation of postmodern self-reflexive theatre in the Singapore context, especially theatre pieces responding to postmodern, post-independence Singapore. This critical review aims to detail analysis made from the Human Lefts Series and its significant contribution to the study of self-reflexivity. More relevant issues to the postmodern Singapore include the current political situation, alternative sexualities (homosexuality and transexualism explored in the Human Lefts Series), and the effect of 'cloning' and appropriation being the key cultural dominant of Singapore. By the end 2009, a total of four pieces of works under the Human Lefts umbrella was showcased to the public. Three main outputs will be discussed in this review. The study aims to answer the following research questions: I. What is self-reflexivity in the postmodern, post-independence Singapore context? 2. How has the Human Lefts Series responded to the self-reflexivity defined in this research? 3. How has the concept of self-reflexivity affected the process of creating the Human Lefts Series? 4. What further inferences can be made, in relation to postmodern theories, from the process of creating the Human Lefts Series? This portfolio also highlights the absence of a physical rehearsal process for the Human Lefts Series. With a clear performance structure, a performer can walk into the performance and begin the delivery of the performance immediately. There is also a discussion on the functions of a performer in a postmodern self-reflexive theatre, in relation to Roland Barthes' essay on The Death of the Author. The performer's experience cannot be totally separated from the character in a postmodern self-reflexive performance. The portfolio consists of the main body of text (the review), a set of appendices and the video recording of the three research outputs. It is recommended to watch the video recording (performances) prior to reading this review.
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Teng, Siao See. "The cultural politics of history-writing in Singapore : a postcolonial study." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433569.
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Cheng, Nien Yuan. "The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/21117.
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Singapore has become what I call the storytelling state, referring to the nation’s newfound interest in a specific form of narration that emerged within the last decade. In such a state, public (auto)biographical storytelling, elicited through visualised narrative interviews, proliferates and constitutes the nation’s mediascape. Governmental agencies and government-linked institutions actively facilitate this phenomenon through campaigns and funding incentives. Examining several key campaigns from the period of 2009-2018 – “Singaporean of the Day”, the Singapore Memory Project (SMP), “SG Cares” and Honour (Singapore) – I show how the state cultivates an intimate, confessional public. The SMP campaign in particular generated a new paradigm of communicating the plotlines, lessons, and telos of the ‘Singapore Story’ by refiguring the national archive onto everyday bodies in a pedagogical exercise of identity and belonging. Life stories, marketed as authentic windows to the private self, also produce normative ways of feeling, doing and being Singaporean in accordance with contemporary social concerns. Going against the grain of the state’s tendency to practice governance only in terms of quantitative outputs and statistics, these performances qualitatively ‘conduct the conduct’ of Singaporeans through repeated exposure. Performance theory, with its emphasis on framing, audiencing, embodiment and making the familiar unfamiliar, brings the fictive nature of life history-telling to the fore. While popular and academic discourses around life storytelling tend to frame it as a positive exercise in empowerment, the Singaporean case makes it clear that the idea of ‘giving voice’ to the non-elite and the marginalised can have injurious effects that are not necessarily unique to Singapore. I argue that this process of giving an account of oneself obscures structural inequalities and interpellates some subjectivities as more recognisable than others. At stake here is the performance of citizenship. That said, the refiguration of the Singapore Story onto Singaporean bodies is not a tidy mapping of performativity (the discursive reproduction of norms) onto performance (the materialisation of bodies). Affective and embodied tellings make the absolute control of signification and transmission difficult, creating slippages and excesses in meaning with effects that transgress the normative demands of the storytelling state. When the national mise-en-scène seems to be life itself, what does it mean to have a life in Singapore?
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Rerceretnam, Marc. "Black Europeans, the Indian coolies and empire : colonialisation and christianized Indians in colonial Malaya & Singapore, c. 1870s - c. 1950s." Phd thesis, Faculty of Economics and Business, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7626.
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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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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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Wong, Souk Yee. "Plato's illusion : republic of Singapore." Thesis, View thesis, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/27293.
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This essay attempts to explain and justify the style and structure of the novel within the traditions of contemporary literary writing. It will discuss realist conventions and devices applied in the novel, such as plot and character, and examine their effectiveness, or limits, in telling a story. The writing of this novel was prompted by the relentless stream of political events that has flowed through the recent history of Singapore. Since the island's independence from British colonial rule in 1965, a small ruling elite embarked on a ferocious nation-building programme that has not always recognised its citizens as individuals, but rather more collectively as workers, managers, professionals, housewives and students: each group expected to perform a specific role in society. State apparatuses such as law enforcement, the civil service and the mass media are engineered to direct the conduct of citizens from cradle to grave. This instigated, and provided the background to, the writing of Plato's Illusion. An objective of this novel is to document as well as imaginatively capture life in Singapore under its prevailing authoritarian rule. The writing strategy adopted is to represent politics in terms of individual 'common' experience, for almost every aspect of the private citizen's life has been politicised in Singapore. Government intervention and manipulation are situated in the personal affairs of attending university, getting a job, finding a husband and having children. In other words, by portraying the process and effects of those interventions on the characters in the novel, the body politics will simultaneously take on a more concrete shape with a face and an attitude. This strategy, used in the development of plot and characters, would be a good representation of life in Singapore, if the effects of government policies and the personal psyche were thoroughly explored and articulated.
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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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com, LKSHIS@gmail, and Kah Seng Loh. "The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090219.104739.
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By 1970, Singapores urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the Peoples Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regimes emergency programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAPs far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fires symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAPs new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nations progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fires role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore.
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Dobbs, Stephen. "An ecological history of the Singapore river: With particular reference to the lighterage industry." Thesis, Dobbs, Stephen (1999) An ecological history of the Singapore river: With particular reference to the lighterage industry. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1999. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52994/.
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This thesis is a history of the Singapore River. Using a combination of archival and oral history sources the thesis reconstructs the ecological history of the river and the lighterage industry. Temporally, it encompasses the period 1819 (the founding of modem Singapore) to the present. In reconstructing life along the river, emphasis is placed on the lightermen who earned their livelihood plying the waterway.
In the first section of the thesis (The Singapore River and City) I examine the river across time, locating it in the broader context of Singapore’s development as an entrepot. The aim of these early chapters is to highlight the role of the river and its significant influence on the city of Singapore. Chapters one to four demonstrate the integral part played by the river not only as a trading artery of considerable importance but in actually shaping the city of Singapore. As the river became the centre of trading activity so it became the centre of the city.
The second part of the thesis (Life on the River) focuses on the day to day experience of individuals on and along the river, providing both social and cultural dimensions. Using oral history archives and personal interviews in these chapters, I draw individuals from the shadows of the river’s history by examining, with case studies, life as lived along the river. The emphasis here is on the lightermen who not only worked the waters of the river, but made it their home.
The final section of the thesis (Looking to the Future) examines the transformation of the river from trading artery to tourist attraction, it looks at changes that have occurred since the decision was made to remove lighters from the river, clean up the water and refurbish historical sites along its banks. This marks the dawn of a new era for the river, as restored godowns, shop houses and wharves become bars, ‘pubs’, nightclubs, shopping arcades and other venues of commerce and entertainment on the eve of the next century.
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Gahre, Connor J. "SELLING AUTHORITARIANISM: SINGAPORE AND CHINA’S BRANDING PROCESSES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1561577957887846.
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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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Waite, Julia. "Under construction : national identity and the display of colonial history at the National Museum of Singapore and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Museum and Heritage Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1039.
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Tay, Eddie, and 鄭竹文. "Not at home: colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37898139.
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Sugarman, Michael William. "Slums, squatters and urban redevelopment schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/276904.
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My research examines the interconnected histories of urbanism and urban development in port cities across South and Southeast Asia. Chapter one examines the effects of the third plague pandemic on the quotidian livelihoods and the built environments of the urban poor across Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Considering corporeal measures to inspect the bodies and homes of the urban poor and measures to introduce urban ‘improvement’ schemes, this chapter argues that plague sparked a sustained interest in the urban conditions of the poor across British South and Southeast Asia. Chapter two considers the works of the Bombay Improvement Trust, Rangoon Development Trust, and Singapore Improvement Trust through the early decades of the twentieth century and analyses how an imperial urbanism based on a ‘Bombay model’ translated to Singapore and other port cities across the Indian Ocean world. Chapter three considers the consequences of the second wave of ‘indirect’ attacks on urban slums on an evolving imperial urbanism in Bombay, Rangoon, and Singapore. While previous chapters examined the emergence of an imperial urbanism centred on Bombay’s example, chapter four considers the extent to which Bombay remained central to this urbanism during the late 1930s and Second World War. Analysing the divergent consequences of patterns of urban growth in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore throughout the late-1930s, this chapter considers late-colonial efforts to house the urban poor as well as the extent to which the war recast the post-war housing situation. Chapter five contextualises post-war rhetoric of economic and urban development in Hong Kong and Singapore within narratives of pre-war urban ‘improvement’. In connecting pre-war and post-war approaches to accommodating the urban poor, the final chapter considers the reorientation of earlier circulations of knowledge around urban poverty in port cities and its implications for emerging post-colonial regional, national and urban identities.
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Ng, Kok Hoe. "The prospects for old-age income security in Hong Kong and Singapore." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/786/.
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Family support is the central pillar of old-age income security in Hong Kong and Singapore. But demographic ageing, among the fastest internationally, implies fewer adult children to provide support, while the public pension systems remain lean even by East Asian standards. Future elderly cohorts therefore face growing risks of financial hardship. This study examines the current extent of this problem, its prospects in the coming decades, and the possibilities of pension reform. It is unique in combining historical and prospective approaches towards policy causes and effects within a comparative framework. First, it analyses work, incomes, and living arrangements among elderly persons in 1995/1996 and 2005/2006 using microdata from national surveys. Next, it models possible living arrangements, income sources, and pension outcomes for future elderly cohorts using a macrosimulation model and illustrative cases. Finally, it examines the historical factors affecting pension policy development and assesses the potential for reform. Elderly poverty is more serious than often acknowledged—three quarters of elderly persons have incomes below 40% of the median wage, including a quarter of those in work in Singapore. Children‘s transfers are prevalent and large, while co-residence boosts elderly incomes on a household basis. But co-residence is already falling. By 2030, half of elderly persons may not live with their children. Almost a third may have access to neither market income nor children‘s contributions. Pensions are estimated to replace less than a third of men‘s final wage and are equivalent to a quarter or less of the median wage for women. Although developmental policy paradigms disfavour generous public pension systems in both places, explicit policy demands by the public keep up the pressure on policymakers in Hong Kong. In Singapore, reform prospects may depend on the growth of ideational competition and the availability of policy proposals to focus public concerns and rejuvenate policy thinking.
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Soon, Simon Sien Yong. "What is Left of Art? The Spatio‐Visual Practice of Political Art in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, 1950s–1970s." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14186.
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What is Left of Art? begins with a simple question about the place of art during a period of great socio-political transformation. How did artists respond to the upheaval brought about by modern political changes? Where was art located in times of moral and political crises? In my research, I take the left-leaning political art movements in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines as case studies, looking at the period from 1950s – 1970s. This thesis makes an original contribution to the critical inquiry of left-leaning political art through a comparative study that posits discursive affinity of this form of art practice across four countries that have hitherto not been considered collectively. Instead of focusing on analysing the meaning behind the works of art or simply providing a descriptive historical account of these movements, I have identified three domains of political art for productive inquiry. These are the organisation, the text and the street. While these components, and the artistic strategies explored within them, were not exclusive to Southeast Asian modern art, as demonstrated by the social art histories in many other different contexts, the specific conditions of post-war Southeast Asia produce a common historical experience. It underlines the significance of historical structure in shaping the character of politicisation of art in Southeast Asia. My thesis explores how these domains of political art could be understood as strategies explored by the cultural left to rethink received discourses and institutions of modern art in order to engender a different aesthetic paradigm centered on the commitment towards the people. Often these include re-imagining how art constituted a spatio-visual practice that shaped or intervened in modern urban spaces. The street in this sense represents a significant trope and site of engagement with a broader public. Through this reading, I hope to demonstrate the terms of artistic production through which I am able to make visible an archaeology of political and ideological pressures that shape the artistic modernities of post-war Southeast Asia.
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Wan, Wai-San. "Global and regional sourcing of ICT-enabled business services : upgrading of China, Hong Kong and Singapore along the global value chain." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/457/.
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Offshoring, as part of globalisation, first started decades ago with manufacturing processes disintegrated along the global value chain and dramatically redistributed to low-cost regions. The next global shift of work involving ICT-enabled business services has arisen since the 1990s, especially featuring the success of India’s supplier role. The possibilities for the Global South to move up the value ladder are well demonstrated by the achievements of the newly industrialised economies in East Asia in the first shift and of India in the second. In the services sector, however, potential for upgrading is conditioned by quality-based elements, such as trust, culture and language, which vary both between producing and market areas. Flows are increasingly multi-directional, requiring attention to the neglected issue of demands from fast-growing Southern economies. So how do locations and firms in the Global South attempt to upgrade in the regime of rising services offshoring? The Indian experience especially in serving Anglophone markets in the Global North has been widely documented – but not that of East Asian economies, with their distinct characteristics and strong historic, ethnic and cultural ties with each other. This study examines the upgrading possibilities and constraints of China, Hong Kong and Singapore along the global services chain. For cross-case analysis, it focuses on three specific sets of services, including information technology, finance and accounting, and customer contact services. The concepts of global value chain, competitive advantage and capabilities are applied to reconstruct the phenomenon of services offshoring from both the demand and supply perspectives in the selected locations, and synthesise the dynamics between locational characteristics and firm strategies. A series of distinct upgrading strategies are identified, involving mixes of manufacturisation, knowledge-intensification and deepening relational capabilities to exploit both regional advantages of language/cultural proximity and established global links.
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Afandi, Sahaimi Mohamed. "Conceptions about the nature of accounts in history : an explorarory study of students' ideas and teachers' assumptions about students' understandings in Singapore." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020665/.
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This thesis is an exploratory study of students' understandings about the nature of accounts in history, and teachers' assumptions about those ideas. The study was designed to achieve two related objectives: first, to explore and map out the range of ideas students in Singapore may hold about the nature of historical accounts, and second, to examine the assumptions teachers in Singapore may have about their students' understandings. Sixty-nine students (fifty in Year 9 and nineteen in Year 12) across nine institutions completed two written task-sets designed to generate data on students' ideas about accounts. Group interviews were conducted with all students. 93 teachers responded to a questionnaire survey designed to explore teachers' ideas about students' understanding of accounts. In-depth interviews with nine teachers were carried out to supplement questionnaire data. Data analysis of students' ideas pointed to a broad range of student conceptions about accounts, and to the possibility of viewing these conceptions progressively across a 'factual-multiple-criterial' continuum. Analysis of data that focused on teachers' assumptions about students' ideas revealed the possibility of viewing students' conceptions in 'simple' to 'complex' terms, ranging progressively from (i) static and binary, to (ii) subjective and perspectiveful, and to (iii) dynamic and multi-dimensional. This thesis makes the argument that approaching the teaching of school history in a responsive way requires that Singapore teachers recognize the range of preconceptions that students hold about accounts. Specifically, this is done by engaging students' ideas to help them make sense of new knowledge and develop their disciplinary understandings about history. The implications these findings have on planning, research, assessment and practice are discussed in the context of a history pedagogy that is both receptive to an understanding of the methodological underpinnings of the discipline, and responsive to the notion of developing students' understandings of historical knowledge.
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羅婉嫻. "西方醫學與殖民管治 : 以二次世界大戰前香港和新加坡為比較個案 = Western medicine and colonial rule : pre-WWII Hong Kong and Singapore as comparative cases." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/796.
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Chin, Voon-sheong Grace, and 秦煥嫦. "Expressions of self/censorship: ambivalence and difference in Chinese women's prose writings from Malaysia andSingapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245237.
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Arthur, William T. O. "The Padang, the Sahib and the Sepoy : the role of the Indian Army in Malaya, 1945 to 1946." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:15f7ad03-41df-4fdb-9b50-4d3e5936aff9.
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This thesis analyses the nation-building work that the Indian Army undertook during the military administration of Malaya, 1945-6. This was a two-part process, taking in military-led relief work and a political reform scheme. Historians have conducted little work on the Indian Army’s role in the British return to empire in Malaya, thus the army’s crucial and nuanced role has been overlooked. This limits the understanding of the army’s institutional development and role in Malayan nation-building between 1945-6. This thesis redresses this. It argues that the military administration of Malaya encapsulated the culmination of wartime changes to the role of the Indian Army fighting soldier. Whereas before the war the Indian Army found it expedient to keep its soldiers isolated from current affairs, British experience during the Second World War instead suggested that soldiers educated in current affairs could be very effective. Concurrently, British military leaders began to think on the role of the Indian Army and its men after the war. They concluded that the Indian Army’s soldiers could become catalysts of national political and social development, and initially identified this as a role for the army in post-war India. Furthermore, it was felt that the Indian Army could contribute both to the Commonwealth and United Nations ideals. The return to Malaya encapsulated these changes to the conception of the Indian Army soldier and was a practical expression and measure of these. The soldiers became agents of political change, imperial re-entrenchment and administration – which this thesis terms ‘soldier-administrators’. The Indian Army, it is argued, was deployed consciously as a nation-building force, using the new thinking on the role of Indian Army soldiers. In so doing, the Indian Army partook in targeted schemes for military relief, political reform and nation-building to try to build the new Malayan nation.
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Tofighian, Nadi. "Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94155.
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This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. The starting point is two simultaneous and interrelated processes in the late 1800s, to which cinema contributed. One process, colonialism and imperialism, separated people into different classes of people, ruler and ruled, white and non-white, thereby creating and widening a colonial binary. The other process was bringing the world closer, through technology, trade, and migration, and compressing the notions of time and space. The study assesses the development of cinema in a colonial setting and how its development disrupted notions of racial hierarchies. The first decade of cinema in Southeast Asia, particularly in Singapore, is used as a point of reference from where issues such as imperialism, colonial discourse, nation-building, ethnicity, gender, and race is discussed. The development of film exhibition and distribution in Southeast Asia is tracked from travelling film exhibitors and agents to the opening of a regional Pathé Frères office and permanent film venues. By having a transnational perspective the interconnectedness of Southeast Asia is demonstrated, as well as its constructed national borders. Cinematic venues throughout Southeast Asia negotiated segregated, colonial racial politics by creating a common social space where people from different ethnic and social backgrounds gathered. Furthermore, this study analyses what kind of worldview the exhibited pictures had and how audiences reproduced their meanings.
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Crabb, Dawn Nora. "Navigating the Wreck: Writing women’s experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Salvaged from the Wreck: A novel -and- Diving into the Wreck: A critical essay." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2021. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2416.
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This thesis is in two parts. The first and major part consists of a historical novel followed, in part two, by an essay. The title of this thesis, “Navigating the Wreck”, refers metaphorically to the Fall of Singapore in 1942, the ensuing human tragedy unleashed on the people of Singapore and Malaya, and the literary and historical processes of exploring, interpreting and depicting the past. The Japanese occupation of Singapore has, to date, been described mostly by Western historians and former prisoners of war who have forged a predominant patriarchal narrative. In that narrative—despite the all-encompassing nature of the occupation and the cataclysmic effect it had on civilians—women are virtually invisible.
The objective of this thesis is to privilege women’s experiences by ethically gathering, analysing and re-imagining the accounts of a group of women of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds—Chinese, Indian, Malay, Eurasian—who lived through the occupation, using historical fiction to engage as broad a readership as possible. As well as literary praxis, research centres on analysis of relevant literature, including eight ethnically diverse published female memoirs and eleven women’s oral histories held by the National Archive of Singapore.
The essay discusses the artefact-centred, pragmatic and self-reflexive bricolage approach of this thesis, its feminist and phenomenological framework and my ethical responsibility and outsider authorial position as a white Australian woman reliant on local witness accounts. Feminist concerns addressed in the thesis are invisibility, plurality and intersectionality and I adopt a critical feminist phenomenology based on five aspects of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to discuss the aims and the research and writing processes of the thesis.
Working within that framework, I summarised and categorised female oral interview data from audio and written transcripts enabling comparison of each woman’s individual experience of the war and the effects that the occupation had on each woman’s life situation, revealing a diverse set of experiences, some of which influenced my literary choices. By immersing myself in the particular remembered experiences of each of the female interviewees and considering their stories against the tapestry of my own extensive lived experience of the physical, cultural and social world of Singapore, as well as an in-depth investigation of other historical data and male and female written memoirs, I identified gaps and silences that needed to be addressed. These include the strategic household, wage earning, food-supplying and charitable role that women played in the dangerous and difficult situation of the occupation as well as the ignored or marginalised active participation of women in Singapore’s pre-war anti-colonial communist movements, support for and armed participation in anti-Japanese activities in China as well as the jungle-based guerrilla militias in Malaya, and the urban anti-Japanese underground in Singapore.
The essay weaves the creative thinking and practical processes of researching and writing the novel through discussion of practice, literature, theory, methodology and craft, retrieving and exposing what is usually submerged in the creative process to indicate a matrix of production.
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Hamilton, Sheilah Elizabeth. "Private security and government : a Hong Kong perspective, 1841-1941 /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42575102.
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Chia, Ing-ping. "The continuous story interpretation and presentation of historical forts in Singapore /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31476855.
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Chia, Ing-ping, and 謝盈冰. "The continuous story: interpretation and presentation of historical forts in Singapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31476855.
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Wong, Souk Yee, University of Western Sydney, and School of Cultural Histories and Futures. "Plato's illusion : republic of Singapore." 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/27293.
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This essay attempts to explain and justify the style and structure of the novel within the traditions of contemporary literary writing. It will discuss realist conventions and devices applied in the novel, such as plot and character, and examine their effectiveness, or limits, in telling a story. The writing of this novel was prompted by the relentless stream of political events that has flowed through the recent history of Singapore. Since the island's independence from British colonial rule in 1965, a small ruling elite embarked on a ferocious nation-building programme that has not always recognised its citizens as individuals, but rather more collectively as workers, managers, professionals, housewives and students: each group expected to perform a specific role in society. State apparatuses such as law enforcement, the civil service and the mass media are engineered to direct the conduct of citizens from cradle to grave. This instigated, and provided the background to, the writing of Plato's Illusion. An objective of this novel is to document as well as imaginatively capture life in Singapore under its prevailing authoritarian rule. The writing strategy adopted is to represent politics in terms of individual 'common' experience, for almost every aspect of the private citizen's life has been politicised in Singapore. Government intervention and manipulation are situated in the personal affairs of attending university, getting a job, finding a husband and having children. In other words, by portraying the process and effects of those interventions on the characters in the novel, the body politics will simultaneously take on a more concrete shape with a face and an attitude. This strategy, used in the development of plot and characters, would be a good representation of life in Singapore, if the effects of government policies and the personal psyche were thoroughly explored and articulated.Master of Arts (Hons)
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Eaton, Clay. "Governing Shōnan: The Japanese Administration of Wartime Singapore." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D87387HW.
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The Japanese military administration of Southeast Asia during the Second World War was meant to rebuild the prewar colonial system in the region under strong, centralized control. Different Japanese administrators disagreed over tactics, but their shared goal was to transform the inhabitants of the region into productive members of a new imperial formation, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Shōnan, the wartime name for Singapore, was meant to be the center of this Co-Prosperity Sphere in Southeast Asia. It was the strategic fulcrum of the region, one of its most important ports, and a center of culture and learning for the wartime Japanese. Home to thousands of Japanese administrators during the war and a linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse local population, Shōnan was a site of active debates over the future of the Sphere. Three assumptions undergirded these discussions: that of Japanese preeminence within the Sphere, the suitability of “rule by minzoku (race)” for Southeast Asians, and the importance of maintaining colonial social hierarchies even as Japanese administrators attempted to put the region on a total war footing. These goals were at odds with each other, and Japanese rule only upended social hierarchies and exacerbated racial tensions. The unintended legacy of the wartime empire lay, not only in the new opportunities that Japanese rule afforded to Southeast Asian revolutionaries, but in the end of the politics of accommodation with imperial power practiced by prewar Asian elites. The result of Japanese rule under the Co-Prosperity Sphere was the emergence of a new, confrontational form of politics that made it impossible to return to prewar colonial practice. Even in Singapore, the bastion of British power in Southeast Asia, Japanese rule undermined the Asian foundation that Western imperialism had been built on.
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Langenbach, Ray. "Performing the Singapore state 1988-1995." Thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/576.
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This dissertation explores performances in Singapore as indicators of divergent visions of the nation-state. To understand the ways in which the government and artists contested (or, in some cases, agreed to not contest) the cultural ground requires an examination of performance as a semiotic mode in public life, a genre in art, and an instrument of cultural politics. A study of performance alone cannot sufficiently reveal the subtleties of governmental and artistic agency. The government and artists have mobilized specific figures of speech from a repertoire developed over centuries.These tropes are analysed for their uses, their performative instrumentality, and their discursive power. Tropes and performances coalesce and disseminate prevailing national, regional,and global ideologies. This study examines the power of aesthetic forms, and the aesthetics of power. Competing notions of performance in Singapore led to a cultural crisis in 1993-94. That historical punctum and its ramifications constitutes the primary object of this research, and is presented as a significant indicator of the state of the Singapore state at that time.
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Chen, Li-Yu, and 陳麗郁. "Notions of History in Museum Exhibition: A Study on the History Gallery at the National Museum of Singapore." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hw766m.
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碩士國立臺北藝術大學
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History is invented by nowadays people those are trying to reveal the past days’ wonders and mysteries. It’s the contemporary product and the remains of the past. It’s also the connection of the past and today. History is a knowledge system that carries lots of self-identifies and variety of values. It’s not only existed in the academic disciplines or in the scholar’s brain but also an invisible power that was born in the contemporary society and became the strength that made the society. My thesis is trying to discuss the landscape of history exhibition and the relationships with the notions of history itself. We will look through the case, History Gallery in the National Museum of Singapore, and try to discover the complexity between the museum history exhibition and the Historiography. When the two paths of the History Gallery, the Events Path and the Personal Path, catch visitors’ attentions, we have to rethink the possibilities of the paths brings. And we have to connect the guiding device, the Companion, and the “story-telling” narrative techniques into the concept of the representation of the history. I use diachronic historical timeline and synchronic cultural space to reconstruct the exhibition structure and I treat the story-telling narratives and the objects as the bricks and concrete to be the basic elements of the exhibition. All of these parts together and build a subjective view of the represented history and the agency to communicate and interact with the objective views outside of the museum or from the society and the authorities. That’s the reason and the purpose why I try to put the notions of history in museum exhibition being the important perspective of the historiography and History itself. The museums in Singapore and those in Taiwan are so different that I try not to jump to conclusion, but the notions of history in the History Gallery would be one of the best examples for the every museum cosmopolitan who’s within the historical identity confusion.
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Hudd, SF. "From orphanage to entertainment venue : colonial and post-colonial Singapore reflected in the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus." Thesis, 2015. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22778/1/whole_Hudd_thesis.pdf.
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By tracing the transformation of the site of the former Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, this thesis connects key issues and developments in the history of colonial and postcolonial Singapore. The convent, established in 1854 in central Singapore, is now the "premier lifestyle destination", CHIJMES. I show that the Sisters were early providers of social services and girls‘ education, with an orphanage, women‘s refuge and schools for girls. They survived the turbulent years of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore and adapted to the priorities of the new government after independence, expanding to become the largest cloistered convent in Southeast Asia. In the 1980s, with urban redevelopment a priority for the new nation, the government acquired the site, demolished some buildings, and put the remainder out to private tender. The chapel and the former nuns‘ residence are now classified as National Monuments.
Despite the classification, and in line with government policy of adaptive re-use of heritage buildings, the CHIJMES complex now contains numerous bars and restaurants, and the deconsecrated chapel is used for wedding receptions and other events. Tracking the physical and usage changes of the site, this thesis works to make sense of the journey from convent to entertainment venue. In a society that has undergone massive change economically and socially, and, above all, transitioned from colonial enterprise to wealthy independent city-state, the physical changes and differing usages of the site over the years echo the changes in the nation. The thesis thus uses the Convent/CHIJMES as a site for reading the changes in colonial and post-colonial Singapore.
My time period – 1854 to the present – spans the colonial era, including the disruption of the Japanese Occupation during World War Two, the immediate post-colonial period of independence, and the subsequent massive economic and physical development of Singapore into a world city. In a context of rapid change and globalisation, I also examine how the past is remembered in Singapore through the designation of National Monuments and historic sites, as well as how the Convent itself is remembered. The scope of the thesis necessitated an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on a broad range of scholarship, including history, social geography, religion, urban studies, heritage conservation and museum studies. In addition, I have analysed personal narratives, contemporary media reports and the visual record, using historical and contemporary photographs. In examining a physical set of buildings, I approach the site as a text in which layers of meaning can be read, not only about the site itself, but about the development of Singapore.
The transformation of the site, from a wholly European institution into something more quintessentially Singaporean, offers an example which troubles some of the dichotomies about colonialism and about missionaries. The focus on French Catholic nuns in a British, and therefore Anglican, colony adds to the complexity of our understanding of colonialism, and I argue that the laissez-faire approach to free trade also extended to a tolerance of religious missions. The nuns‘ work with orphans, women seeking refuge, and in the education of girls, adds to the richness of our understanding of social issues in colonial Singapore, and demonstrates that they were women who actively contributed to the development of education and social welfare services. In this thesis, I argue that Singapore was both colonised and decolonised in ways that complicate the wider narrative of empire.
I also address the postcolonial impetus for industrialisation and urban redevelopment in the new nation and the initial privileging of development over heritage conservation. An examination of the acquisition of the site and its "adaptive reuse" tells us much about the imagining of the new Singapore. The subsequent turn to heritage conservation in the 1980s and 1990s meant that many heritage buildings and sites have been preserved, and an examination of these national monuments and historic sites shows that Singapore has incorporated its colonial past into its national narrative in ways that differ from many other ex-colonies.
Despite a greater focus on heritage conservation, government policies of continued economic development have generated community angst about lost heritage and a nostalgia for the past. In a Singapore that is constantly changing its built environment, I argue that the recent changes at CHIJMES demonstrate not only the relentless developmentalism of the modern city-state, but also the fracture lines in the national narrative. I use the concept of a building as a palimpsest of meaning to show that past uses of buildings resurface at times and that redevelopment does not always erase emotional attachments to place.
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Low, James. "A commitment to professional reform: an administrative history of executive development and training in the Singapore Public Service, 1959 to 2001." Phd thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13342.
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The Singapore Public Service, acknowledged internationally as highly-efficient and one of the least corrupt in the world, has often been overlooked by literature. Yet, the strategic vision and political leadership of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his People’s Action Party government, often attributed for Singapore’s success, still needed to be translated into practicable policies and implemented into programmes by the bureaucracy. A comprehensive examination into the role of the bureaucracy in Singapore’s modernisation is beyond the constraints of this doctoral thesis. This study, using archival research and oral interviews to construct an administrative history of executive development and training in the Singapore Public Service, plugs a gap in the literature and lays the foundation for a future holistic examination of the Singapore bureaucracy. This thesis argues that the Singapore Public Service used executive development training and as a medium of change to introduce reforms across the bureaucracy. In so doing, the bureaucracy was able to constantly adjust itself to help modernise Singapore. In the 40 years between decolonisation in 1959 and 2001, when the training arm of the Singapore bureaucracy became a statutory board, training and development had been used firstly, to socialise the bureaucracy away from its colonial-era organisational culture to prepare it for the tasks of state-formation and nation-building. Subsequently, civil servants were mobilised, through training and development, into an ‘economic general staff’ to lead the Singapore developmental state in the 1970s and 1980s. The modus operandi in all this was to prioritise the training of the bureaucracy’s leadership corps, to groom an élite Praetorian Guard, who would then disseminate reforms across the bureaucracy. The Public Service for the
21st Century reforms in the 1990s was the epitome in harnessing development and training for reforms across the bureaucracy. The study concludes, not be asserting a template for replication but, offering points of reference for bureaucracies aspiring reforms. The thesis is not an end in itself but offers a basis to start a conversation on scholarship in the fields of history, public administration and Singapore.
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Chua, Wei Boon. "Intimacy at a distance: A history of United States-Singapore foreign relations from 1965 to 1975." Phd thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12276.
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Singapore became an independent state on 9 August 1965, six months after
United States forces landed in Vietnam in March 1965. As part of an effort to contain
the influence of the Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China in Southeast Asia,
Washington deployed a strategy that encompassed political, economic and defence
engagements with non-communist countries in the region. Because of its strategic
location and significant population of overseas Chinese, Singapore became a key
country in Washington’s policy towards Southeast Asia.
Between 1965 and 1975, Washington aimed to maintain its access to Singapore’s naval dockyards and to keep the island state’s economy viable, so as to
limit the risk of communist subversion in Singapore. The Singapore government’s
objectives were to preserve its legitimacy to govern by developing Singapore’s
economy and boosting its security during the Cold War. In order to gain international
recognition of its independence after separation from Malaysia, the Singapore
government decided to join the Non-aligned Movement and maintained an image of
neutralism in the bipolar conflict between the US and the USSR. After a rocky start in
the US-Singapore relationship in late 1965, America’s relations with Singapore
improved in 1966. Nevertheless, the Singapore government seemed to distance itself from the US while drawing nearer to the Soviet Union between the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
Drawing from archival documents from the United States, Britain and Australia,
this dissertation presents a history of US-Singapore foreign relations during the period of the Vietnam War, and argues that relations between the two countries were
determined by the interplay of America’s policy of containment and Singapore’s
attempt at projecting a non-aligned foreign policy stance. Although the first decade of
Singapore’s independence established the United States as an indispensable contributor
to Singapore’s economic growth and security during the Cold War, the process was not
always smooth because the leaders in both countries recognised that their interests were best met when Singapore and the US maintained political distance from each other.
This study adds to a current trend in Cold War historiography in Southeast Asia
by demonstrating how American strategy was influenced by smaller states such as
Singapore. The Singapore government attempted to sway US strategy in the region and was able to achieve its goals when it played the Soviet card. Non-communist Southeast Asian leaders, including Lee Kuan Yew, exerted pressure on the US government to
maintain troops in Vietnam and prolonged the Vietnam war. This study establishes a
link between a prosperous Southeast Asia and a Vietnam that became a war zone and
proposes that Singapore was able to prosper not only due to good governance, but also
because of America’s interest in keeping Singapore economically viable.
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Mo, Yimei. "Local colour in Malayan Chinese fiction : a new approach." Master's thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133642.
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1. Malayan Chinese Literature :1920-1937 : Definitions and Significance
Malayan Chinese literature, that is a literature written in Chinese by Chinese resident of
Malaya (including Singapore), is a complex subject, both in itself and in the ways in which it is
perceived by different people. Therefore, before entering into any description or discussion, it
is necessary to defme both the writers and the geographical limits of Malayan Chinese literature
in the period under study.
For the purpose of this thesis, Malayan Chinese authors can be classified into two
general categories. Firstly, those born either in China or Malaya, who lived for various periods
of time in Malaya, and who published literary work ( including poetry, fiction, drama, prose,
fables, literary comment, etc) locally between 1920 and 1937. This is regardless of whether
they used Nanyang, that is modern Southeast Asia, as the setting of their work. Secondly, there
are those who lived in Malaya and wrote about the Nanyang area, but published their work
elsewhere, primarily in mainland China.
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"殖民地知識分子之興起: 以香港、台灣及新加坡作個案." Thesis, 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6074934.
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Colonial intellectual is a good point of entry for making sense of anti-colonial movement because in many cases they constituted the pioneer of the movement. Moreover, in some cases, they became the founding father of new nations. However, such an important social category received inadequate attentions.The main concern of this research is: how to make sense of the fact that in some colonies, anti-colonial movement were stronger while in others, the subjects were silent. The present writer would use colonial intellectuals from three areas (Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore) as cases to illustrate the development of anti-colonial movements in above three areas in late nineteenth Century and Early Twenty Century.
Using the theory of institutionalization as theoretical framework, the present writer argued that the level of institutionalized of the society is the prime mover of the event. To view colonial society as a social group, it is argued that only in those societies reaching a high level of institutionalization, then members of the society would develop a kind of locally oriented vision of the society. That kind of vision is the necessary condition of anti-colonial movement. In the following thesis, the present writer would discuss in what way colonial governance, migration, and the conditions of pre-colonial society shaped the level of institutionalization of the discussed cases.
劉紹麟.
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Chiu, Hsi-hsin, and 邱錫欣. "The life history and the chemical control of Singapora." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99515302421677217218.
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The Japanese apricot leafhopper, Singapora shinshana (Matsumura), classifed as Homoptera, Cicadellidea,Typhlocybine, causes main damage on Japanese apricot leaves. The adult appears yellowish green and there is a round black spot on its frons. The egg is semi-transparent, cream and cylindrical.The nymph includes five instars and the wing buds shows up at the third instar, tarsus with 2 segments. At the various temperatures in the laboratory, the development duration at egg and nymphal stages decreased as the temperature increased, except for 10 °Ｃ and 35°Ｃ. The average duration were: 20.1 days, 62.1 days at 15°Ｃ ; 14.1 days, 29.8 days at 20°Ｃ ; 11.8 days, 19.5 days at 25°Ｃ;8.9 days,17.5 days at 30°Ｃ respectively. The low development threshold temperatures and the total effective temperature were 9.4°Ｃ and 335.1 drgree- days(DD) calculated by linear regression analysis. The average longevity of the adult decreased as the temperatures increased: 97.4 days at 5°Ｃ,106.3 days at 10°Ｃ, 73.9 days at 15°Ｃ, 55.9 days at 20°Ｃ,36.2 days at 25 °Ｃ and 8.8 days at 30°Ｃ respectively. The adult mated on average at 4.1 days after emergence. When mating, the ends of the abdomen of the male and female connected together being shaped as a horizontal line, and the longest mating duration lasted 50 minutes, the shortest 14 minutes, and the average 24 minutes. As for the oviposition at 25°Ｃ, the average duration of pre-oviposition, oviposition and post-oviposition were 6.7 days,25.4 days and 2.5 days respectively and the number of the eggs produced was 60.5. The geographical distribution of S. shinshana spreads the Japanese apricot farms almost all over Taiwan. However, the damage is not so severe at the high land such as Kukuan ,Taichung county and Wushe, Nantou county. No S. shinshana has found in the areas at even higher sea level as Lishan, Taichung county and Chinjing farm, Nantou county.
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Hsu, Janice, and 許明純. "Shaping Political Socialization：The Case of Historic Textbooks of Secondary School in Singapore." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00097840197304918901.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
東南亞研究所
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This research provides an overview of the topic in relation to the concepts of political socialization for the historic textbooks of secondary school in Singapore. The meaning of“Political Socialization”refers to the human beings in the progress of acquisition associated with values、attitude、acts etc. in the field of political affairs. That is，political socialization leads human beings into a systematic place on the one hand，and conservation of political affairs for the society on the other. One main obstacle for Singapore depending in 1956 is the lack of the concept about national identity. Therefore the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, treated the way to reconcile the conflict among the various races in Singapore and form a national identity as the main issues. Owing to the lack of collective conscious of culture and historic understand for people in Singapore, the national education plays a leading part related to the concept of national identity shaping. The History Syllabus Singapore demonstrates that the historic education has the responsibility for the accomplishment of Singapore national development because of its role as the main part of national education. That is, students in Singapore can not devote their soul and life wholeheartedly without historic education. The idea of “Singaporean”is strongly shaped by Singapore government. It refers to people regardless of living in Singapore or not，as long as he / she is willing to soul and life devotion for Singapore and has a great exception for Singapore，then，he / she is a Singaporean. In words, owing to harmony with the national development of Singapore, the concepts of political socialization are controlled firmly by the government via historic education so as to achieve the goal below: 1. One can pledge loyalty to Singapore and to be proud of being a Singaporean. 2. One will appreciate Singapore because it conquered all the obstacles. 3. One will treasure historical remains of Singapore so as to realize the progress of Singapore development. 4. A Singapore will process the great thinking in order to live in the near future properly.
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Yang, Ping, and 楊平. "A Post-Occupancy Evaluation After The Building Conservation in the Historic District Of Chinatown,Singapore." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53193949047274749553.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
建築與室內設計系碩士班
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Being the important city scene of Taiwan town and county, traditional shophouse reflects the social structure phenomena at those time. Recently, government and people have been very concerning at the conservation of the shophouse and the traditional streets which shophouse forged. The conservation and reuse of the shophouse and the traditional streets are tended to repair and rebuild severally, yet not the overall layout of the repairing and conservation of the shophouse and the traditional streets. The different style of shophouse in district, the different merchant items compared to the traditional business are due to unbounded commercial business. Though the overall repairing and rebuilding at the whole district, the street-facing wall of shophouse ,the Five Foot Way , the bounded district commercial active and facilities get the reputation, but there are still many historical, distinctive old streets and shophouses waiting to be formed and conserved. If we can get the achievement and the success experience in repaired work of Singapore Chinatown historical district, that will be useful at the conservation work of historical district. This research collects Singapore government research reports and constructed drawings, in order to understand the development processing and repaired achievement of historical district. This research interviews local people and records the present condition after shophouse -repaired, the present district as well. The survey pinned to tourists and shophouse users discusses the merits and demerits at the usage and sensuousness of present district, the problem after space-reconstructed. This research concludes the analysis data of all research items and reveals some repaired items which are not approved by the users and tourists, some demerits waiting for improved. On the other hand, we should understand the succeed factor, related policy of repaired items which were satisfied by the users and tourists, then rewrite and merge to the repairing plans of historical districts in our country..