Remembering The Samsui Women

Author : Kelvin E.Y. Low
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825788

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Remembering the Samsui Women by Kelvin E.Y. Low Pdf

In the early twentieth century, thousands of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, with others working in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as “red-head-scarf,” after the headgear that protected them from the sun. In Singapore, the women have been celebrated as pioneering figures for their hard work and resilience, and in China for the sacrifices they made for their families. Remembering the Samsui Women looks at who these women really are and at how both countries have commemorated their experiences. It is an illuminating study of the connection between memory and nation, including the politics of what is remembered and what is forgotten.

Author : Gunalan Nadarajan,Russell Storer,Eugene Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015070122331

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Contemporary Art in Singapore by Gunalan Nadarajan,Russell Storer,Eugene Tan Pdf

Author : Zhuang Wubin
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Photography
ISBN : UCSD:31822044532521

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Shifting Currents by Zhuang Wubin Pdf

Shifting Currents: Glimpses of a Changing Nation is the first book to present a significant collection of Kouo Shang-Wei's most arresting images from his lifetime of photography. Kouo Shang-Wei (1924-1988) was a passionate and talented photographer who was particularly attuned to the passing of time. Over several decades spanning the 1950s to the late 1980s, Kouo's keen eye captured thousands of images of a rapidly changing Singapore, with his viewfinder most often focusing on the evolution of the Singapore River and its immediate environs. Today, his photographs of the Singapore River, Chinatown, the OCBC Centre, Sungei Road Market, Samsui Women, and more, provide us with a precious record of the fruits and price of modernisation. The photographs included in this book were carefully curated from the Kouo Shang-Wei Collection in the National Library, Singapore, by art historian, Zhuang Wubin.

Author : Yayasan Seni Cemeti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art festivals
ISBN : UOM:39015051901869

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Fiber connections by Yayasan Seni Cemeti Pdf

Author : Elaine Chiew
Publisher : Myriad Editions
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912408375

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The Heartsick Diaspora by Elaine Chiew Pdf

Set in different cities around the world, Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves. In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian writer joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women—Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers. > Acutely observed, wry and playful, her stories are as worldly and emotionally resonant as the characters themselves. This fabulous debut collection heralds an exciting new literary voice.

Author : Kum Chee Tham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : UCBK:C095807029

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Many Pathways, One Mission by Kum Chee Tham Pdf

Author : Steven B. Miles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107179929

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Chinese Diasporas by Steven B. Miles Pdf

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

Author : Amberly Kristen Clowe
Publisher : Smooth Sailing Press, LLC
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781618990518

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Axel & Theo: “My Dog is the Emperor of a Faraway Galaxy” by Amberly Kristen Clowe Pdf

Theodore Howard wants a white flag. The kind of white flag that will show Riverwood Elementary’s biggest bully, Theo’s given up on ever surviving the fourth grade, and achieving his dream of becoming a real-life astronaut. But, Theo’s seemingly pathetic future gets a glimmer of hope in the form of a very talkative weenie dog named Axel. Theo learns that his best friend on four legs, is actually an alien from the planet Doglin, and just when he begins warming up to the idea of having an alien for a best friend, Axel is kidnapped by two cats from the planet Catlat. Theo chases after Axel and his kidnappers, embarking on an adventure he could have never imagined.

Author : Yuko Ogasawara
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520919754

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Office Ladies and Salaried Men by Yuko Ogasawara Pdf

In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace." Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employment and have few opportunities for promotion. In this engaging ethnography, Yuko Ogasawara exposes the ways that these women resist men's power, and why the men, despite their exclusive command of authority, often subject themselves to the women's control. Ogasawara, a Japanese sociologist trained in the United States, skillfully mines perceptive participant-observation analyses and numerous interviews to outline the tensions and humiliations of OL work. She details the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that OLs who are frustrated by demeaning, dead-end jobs thwart their managers and subvert the power structure to their advantage. Using gossip, outright work refusal, and public gift-giving as manipulative strategies, they can ultimately make or break the careers of the men. This intimate and absorbing analysis illustrates how the relationships between women and work, and women and men, are far more complex than the previous literature has shown.

Author : Russell Storer
Publisher : Steve Parish
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art, Australian
ISBN : UOM:39015070711364

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Situation by Russell Storer Pdf

Situation is inspired by a number of concerns surrounding contemporary artistic production, presentation and reception.

Author : Victor Zatsepine
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774834124

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Beyond the Amur by Victor Zatsepine Pdf

Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated by Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol people who crossed the border in search of work or trade and who came together to survive a harsh physical environment. This colourful account of a region and its people highlights the often-overlooked influence of frontier developments on state politics and imperial policies and histories.

Author : Wen-Chin Chang,Eric Tagliacozzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199335046

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Burmese Lives by Wen-Chin Chang,Eric Tagliacozzo Pdf

This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches. The constituted stories highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities.

Author : Clarence E. Glick
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824882402

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Sojourners and Settlers by Clarence E. Glick Pdf

Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.

Author : Kwee Sung Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Singapore
ISBN : UOM:39015062870533

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One More Story to Tell by Kwee Sung Chan Pdf

Author : Sze Wee Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art, British
ISBN : 9811106088

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Artist and Empire by Sze Wee Low Pdf

Organised by National Gallery Singapore in association with Tate Britain, Artist and Empire: (En)countering Colonial Legacies critically examines the effects of the British Empire through the prism of art. This catalogue accompanying the exhibition underscores the thought-provoking ways in which artist and Empire affect each other--artists negotiating historical conditions of colonialism in their work, and visual representation altering perceptions of the Empire. Essays by exhibition curators and external scholars situate the concept of Empire within broader socio-political discourse, while selected key artworks from the exhibition are paired with curatorial text that illumines concerns underpinning the works. A comprehensive, pull-out timeline spanning the 16th to 20th centuries charts the scope of activities undertaken in the name of the Empire, and contextualises the pursuits of artists from former colonies.