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Creating a Chinese Community in Colonial Singapore Creating a Chinese Community in Colonial Singapore
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The Migrants’ Social Experience The Migrants’ Social Experience
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From Peasants to Family Business Firms From Peasants to Family Business Firms
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Citizenry and Identity in Post-colonial Singapore Citizenry and Identity in Post-colonial Singapore
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The Ethnicity Question The Ethnicity Question
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Reproducing Culture:: A Model Reproducing Culture:: A Model
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Cultural Dilution Cultural Dilution
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Towards the Future Towards the Future
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The Quest for Kinship and Lineage Continuity The Quest for Kinship and Lineage Continuity
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Emerging Local Singapore Chinese Root:: Luodi shenggen (落
生根) Emerging Local Singapore Chinese Root:: Luodi shenggen (落
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2 Constructing a Singapore Chinese Cultural Identity
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Published:December 2010
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This chapter examines how the Singapore Chinese attempt to establish a cultural identity within the Singapore polity, using their experiences in both China and Singapore. There is an increasing desire among Singapore Chinese to explore parochial cultural identities through dialect affiliation, ancestry, immediate lineage, and other kinship networks. They are not content with knowing themselves only as ethnic Chinese, or even as Fujian or Chaozhou Chinese; they also search for their ancestral roots, to provide themselves with more specific identities. There is thus a continuing growth and production of a multiplicity of identities in resistance to the homogenizing influence of the Singapore state, which attempts to turn Singapore Chinese into a uniform Chinese community with Mandarin as its lingua franca.
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