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Econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Heng, Derek Thiam Soon (Ed.); Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin (Ed.) Book — Published Version Reframing Singapore: Memory - Identity - Trans- Regionalism ICAS Publication Series: Edited Volumes, No. 6 Provided in Cooperation with: Amsterdam University Press (AUP) Suggested Citation: Heng, Derek Thiam Soon (Ed.); Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin (Ed.) (2009) : Reframing Singapore: Memory - Identity - Trans-Regionalism, ICAS Publication Series: Edited Volumes, No. 6, ISBN 978-90-8964-094-9, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089640949 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/181371 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ www.econstor.eu Publications Series Edited Volumes 6 Memory – DerekIdentity Heng is Assistant Professor at the History – Memory – Identity – Department, Ohio State University. He specialises in Reframing Singapore pre-modern Sino-Southeast Asian economic interaction and early Southeast Asian state formation. Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied is Assistant Professor at the Malay Studies Department, National University Trans-Regionalismof Singapore. His research encompasses colonial Trans-Regionalism history, the history of ideas and social identities. Reframing Singapore Heng | Aljunied (eds.) Singapore, over the last two decades, has advanced rapidly towards being a global city-state and key nodal Memory – Identity – point in the international economic sphere. These developments have necessitated the reassessment of Trans-Regionalism the manner in which this country may be understood, including its history, population and geography, as well Edited by as its transregional and transnational experiences with Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied the external world. Reframing Singapore: Memory – Identity – Trans- Regionalism, consisting of fourteen papers, spans several disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, and draws upon various theoretical approaches and methodological processes to provide a more refined understanding of Singapore. The papers take on a multi-disciplinary approach, seeking to reassess the accepted notions and held discourses on Singapore’s past, and to reconceptualise our understanding of the challenges that the country and its people face in the present. 9 789089 640949 www.aup.nl ISBN 978 90 8964 094 9 Reframing Singapore Publications Series General Editor Paul van der Velde Publications Officer Martina van den Haak Editorial Board Wim Boot (Leiden University); Jennifer Holdaway (Social Science Research Coun- cil); Christopher A. Reed (Ohio State Faculty); Anand A. Yang (Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Chair of International Stu- dies at the University of Washington); Guobin Yang (Barnard College, Columbia University) The ICAS Publications Series consists of Monographs and Edited Volumes. The Series takes a multidisciplinary approach to issues of interregional and multilat- eral importance for Asia in a global context. The Series aims to stimulate dialogue amongst scholars and civil society groups at the local, regional and international levels. The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) was founded in 1997. Its main goals are to transcend the boundaries between disciplines, between nations stu- died, and between the geographic origins of the Asia scholars involved. ICAS has grown into the largest biennial Asia studies event covering all subjects of Asia stu- dies. So far five editions of ICAS have been held respectively in Leiden (1998), Berlin (2001), Singapore (2003), Shanghai (2005) and Kuala Lumpur (2007). ICAS 6 will be held in Daejeon (South Korea) from 6-9 August 2009. In 2001 the ICAS secretariat was founded which guarantees the continuity of the ICAS process. In 2004 the ICAS Book Prize (IBP) was established in order to cre- ate by way of a global competition both an international focus for publications on Asia while at the same time increasing their visibility worldwide. Also in 2005 the ICAS Publications Series were established. For more information: www.icassecretariat.org Reframing Singapore Memory – Identity – Trans-Regionalism Edited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied Publications Series Edited Volumes 6 Cover design: JB&A raster grafisch ontwerp, Westland Layout: The DocWorkers, Almere ISBN 978 90 8964 094 9 e-ISBN 978 90 4850 821 1 NUR 761 © ICAS / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2009 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright re- served above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or in- troduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owners and the authors of the book. Table of Contents List of Tables 7 Foreword 9 1 Introduction 11 Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Derek Heng REFRAMING THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 2 From Political Rhetoric to National History: Bi-Culturalism and Hybridisation in the Construction of Singapore’s Historical Narrative 21 Derek Heng Thiam Soon 3 Gateway and Panopticon: Singapore and Surviving Regime Change in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World 39 Koh Keng We 4 Beyond the Rhetoric of Communalism: Violence and the Process of Reconciliation in 1950s Singapore 69 Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied 5 The Politics of Fires in Post-1950s Singapore and the Making of the Modernist Nation-State 89 Loh Kah Seng 6 Gender and Discipline in ‘The Singapore Story’: The Female Chinese Factory Workers in Perspective, c. 1980-c. 1990 109 Ernest Koh 6 REFRAMING SINGAPORE LOCATING IDENTITIES ACROSS BORDERS 7 Textualising the Baba Identity: Insights into the Making of a Bibliography 133 Bonny Tan 8 Negotiating Identities, Affiliations and Interests: The Many Lives of Han Wai Toon, an Overseas Chinese 155 Sharon Wong Wai Yee 9 Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity 175 Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford 10 Trans-National Biographies and Trans-National Habiti: The Case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong Kong 195 Caroline Plüss SINGAPORE AS TRANS-REGIONAL CONDUIT 11 Indian Media and the Lure of ‘Uniquely Singapore’ 213 Faizal bin Yahya and Arunajeet Kaur 12 Localising the Global and Globalising the Local: The Global Households of Filipina Trans-Migrant Workers and Their Singapore Employers 229 Janet M. Arnado 13 Raffles Hotel Singapore: Advertising, Consumption and Romance 247 Chris Hudson 14 The Role of Recruitment Agencies for Japanese Working Women in Singapore 269 Yoshimichi Yui About the Authors 283 Bibliography 289 List of Tables Table 11.1 Number of Indian Tourists Visiting Singapore, 2002-2006 215 Table 14.1 Recruitment Agencies in Singapore Offering Services to Japanese Companies and Japanese Workers 277 Foreword For a small country like Singapore, serving as a key ship-stop to help British imperial expansion for more than a century and only an inde- pendent island-state since 1965, there have certainly been a lot of books published about it. That number has grown more quickly of late, in part because Singapore is a success story that seems to fit an era of capitalist globalization most comfortably. But there are also other reasons why there are so many books and essays written. The island-city acts like a migrant multicultural state in a region that has discovered the idea of native nations. It is a one-team regime that has won every election since 1965 and marginalized an increasingly feeble opposition. It rose from a rowdy imperial entrepot to become a major transport hub for the world and its communities have become purposeful and competitive at higher levels than anyone could have imagined four decades ago. As many have noted, it has continued to fight above its weight in large and tough arenas. And there are more reasons that one can list, including some- thing unlikely only a dozen years ago. It attracts attention in a large numbers of scholarly fields, not only in the engineering, physical and health sciences but also in the arts and social sciences. One measure of that was the very successful conference its younger scholars organized in Singapore six years ago, the Third International Convention of Asia Scholars, where some 940 papers about various as- pects of Asian studies were presented. Four years after that, at the Fifth convention
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