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Author : Lim Keak Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chinese
ISBN : UOM:39015009176853
Author : Hong Liu,Sin Kiong Wong
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820467995
As the first comprehensive study of its kind, this book analyzes the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and consequences of socio-economic and political changes in Singapore Chinese society from 1945 to 1965. By employing a wide range of primary materials that have been rarely used before, the authors have demonstrated the multi-dimensionality and complexity of the Chinese society in postwar Singapore, which was full of vitality and politically active. They argue that the combination of the internal dynamism and the changing socio-political framework shaped the nature and characteristics of the Chinese community and its fundamental role in the making of modern Singapore. This study is essential reading for an understanding of not only the Chinese politics and business networks in postwar Singapore, but also the historical evolution of the newly independent Republic.
Author : Joseph B. Tamney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110814682
Author : Peter S. J. Chen,Hans-Dieter Evers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : UCAL:B4365238
Author : Lim Keak Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015014175502
Author : Kian Woon Kwok
Publisher : Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Re
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Chinese
ISBN : UOM:39015035768020
Author : Max WL Wong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811516443
This book provides a comparative account of the abolition of concubinage in East Asia, offering a new perspective and revised analysis of the factors leading to – and the debates surrounding – the introduction of a new Marriage Reform Ordinance in Hong Kong in 1971. It uses this law as a platform to examine how the existence of concubinage – long preserved in the name of protecting Chinese traditions and customs — crucially influenced family law reforms, which were in response to a perceived need to create a ‘modern’ marriage system within Hong Kong’s Chinese community after the Second World War. This was, by and large, the result of continued pressure from within Hong Kong and from Britain to bring Hong Kong’s marriage system in line with international marriage treaties. It represented one of the last significant intrusions of colonial law into the private sphere of Hong Kong social life, eliminating Chinese customs which had been previously recognised by the colonial legal system’s family law. This book contextualizes the Hong Kong situation by examining judicial cases interpreting Chinese customs and the Great Qing Code, offering a comprehensive understanding of the Hong Kong situation in relation to the status of concubines in Republican China and other East Asian jurisdictions. It will be of particular interest to teachers and students of law, as well as researchers in gender studies, post-colonialism, sociology and cultural studies.
Author : C. J. Wan-ling Wee
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9971693925
Author : Kristina Göransson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824864620
Since gaining independence in 1965, Singapore has become the most trade-intensive economy in the world and the richest country in Southeast Asia. This transformation has been accompanied by the emergence of a deep generational divide. More complex than simple disparities of education or changes in income and consumption patterns, this growing gulf encompasses language, religion, and social memory. The Binding Tie explores how expectations and obligations between generations are being challenged, reworked, and reaffirmed in the face of far-reaching societal change. The family remains a pivotal feature of Singaporean society and the primary unit of support. The author focuses on the middle generation, caught between elderly parents who grew up speaking dialect and their own children who speak English and Mandarin. In analyzing the forces that bind these generations together, she deploys the idea of an intergenerational "contract," which serves as a metaphor for customary obligations and expectations. She convincingly examines the many different levels at which the contract operates within Singaporean families and offers striking examples of the meaningful ways in which intergenerational support and transactions are performed, resisted, and renegotiated. Her rich material, drawn from ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class Chinese, provides insights into the complex interplay of fragmenting and integrating forces. The Binding Tie makes a critical contribution to the study of intergenerational relations in modern, rapidly changing societies and conveys a vivid and nuanced picture of the challenges Singaporean families face in today’s hypermodern world. It will be of interest to researchers and students in a range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, Asian studies, demography, development studies, and family studies.
Author : Kwok B. Chan,Chan Kwok-Bun,Agnes S. M. Ku,Chu Yin-Wah
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004181922
The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.
Author : Jennifer Cushman,Gungwu Wang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622092075
In June 1985, a symposium, "Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere in Australia, North America and Southeast Asia. Participants looked at the current thinking about the parameters of identity and shared their own research into the complex issues that overlapping categories of identity raise. Identity was chosen as the focus of the, symposium because perceptions of self - whether by others or by the individual Chinese concerned - appear to lie at the heart ' of the present-day Chinese experience in Southeast Asia, It is also evident that identity wears many guises and that we cannot talk about a single Chinese identity when identity can be determined by the different political, social, economic or religious circumstances an individual faces at any given time. One of the distinctive characteristics of all the essays in this volume is that they are written from an historical perspective. While the papers forcus on how recent developments in Southeast Asian society have shaped Chinese identity, they also discuss those changes in terms of the historical matrix from which they developed. Because many of the essays in this volume combine an historical overview with more recent statistical data, it should serve as a useful companion to the increasingly popular case studies in which much of the writing about the Chinese in Southeast Asia is now cast.
Author : Thomas Gold,Doug Guthrie,David Wank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521530318
This volume assesses the evolving role of guanxi (social networks) in China's transforming society.
Author : Thomas Tsu-wee Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Associatins, institutions, etc., Chinese
ISBN : OCLC:223412996
Author : W. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230379060
The spectacular economic and technological achievements of certain Far Eastern countries have attracted world wide attention. The markets of the West are dominated by the products of countries with no traditions of industrialisation and few natural resources. The reaction to this phenomenon has been a mixture of amazement, admiration, envy and, curiosity to know how it was done. This book addresses these questions through a study of the modernisation of three of the most successful Asian societies - Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Author : Yow Cheun Hoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136171185
China’s rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world. Ethnic Chinese have done very well economically, and the role of the Chinese Diaspora in China’s economic success has created a myth that their relations with China is natural and primordial, and that regardless of their base outside China and generation of migration, the Chinese Diaspora are inclined to participate enthusiastically in China’s social and economic agendas. This book seeks to dispel such a myth. By focusing on Guangdong, the largest ancestral and native homeland, it argues that not all Chinese diasporic communities are the same in terms of mentality and orientation, and that their connections to the ancestral homeland vary from one community to another. Taking the two Cantonese-speaking localities of Panyu and Xinyi, Yow Cheun Hoe examines the hierarchy of power and politics of these two localities in terms of their diasporic kinsfolk in Singapore and Malaysia, in comparison with their counterparts in North America and Hong Kong. The book reveals that, particularly in China’s reform era since 1978, the arguably primordial sentiment and kinship are less than crucial in determining the content and magnitude of linkages between China and the overseas Chinese. Rather, it suggests that since 1978 business calculation and economic rationale are some of the key motivating factors in determining the destination and degree of diasporic engagement. Examining various forms of Chinese diasporic engagement with China, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese Diaspora, Chinese culture and society, Southeast Asian culture and society and ethnicity.