LEADER 03462 am 22006493u 450 001 9910139861203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-40179-3 010 $a9786612401794 010 $a90-485-0821-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000806731 035 $a(EBL)474242 035 $a(OCoLC)476295565 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342244 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11255260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342244 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10285212 035 $a(PQKB)10843358 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL474242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10346702 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL240179 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC474242 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000806731 100 $a20090416d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReframing Singapore$b[electronic resource] $ememory, identity, trans-regionalism /$fedited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied 210 $aAmsterdam $cAmsterdam University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 0 $aICAS publication series, Edited volumes ;$v6 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-8964-094-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318). 327 $aTable of Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. From Political Rhetoric to National History: Bi-Culturalism and Hybridisation in the Construction of Singapore's Historical Narrative; 3. Gateway and Panopticon: Singapore and Surviving Regime Change in the Nineteenth Century Malay World; 4. Beyond the Rhetoric of Communalism: Violence and the Process of Reconciliation in 1950's Singapore; 5. The Politics of Fires in Post-1950's Singapore and the Making of the Modernist Nation-State 327 $a6. Gender and Discipline in 'The Singapore Story': The Female Chinese Factory Workers in Perspective, c. 1980-c.1997. Textualising the Baba Identity: Insights into the Making of a Bibliography; 8. Negotiating Identities, Affiliations and Interests: The Many Lives of Han Wai Toon, an Overseas Chinese; 9. Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity; 10. Trans-National Biographies and Trans-National Habiti: The Case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong Kong; 11. Indian Media and the Lure of 'Uniquely Singapore' 327 $a12. Localising the Global and Globalising the Local: The Global Households of Filipina Trans-Migrant Workers and Their Singapore Employers 13. Raffles Hotel Singapore: Advertising, Consumption and Romance; 14. The Role of Recruitment Agencies for Japanese Working Women in Singapore; About the Authors; Bibliography 330 $aThis book explores fresh perspectives and offers new themes in the study of Singapore through the use of theoretical tools derived from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. 410 0$aICAS Publications Series 606 $aEthnicity$zSingapore 607 $aSingapore$xHistory 607 $aSingapore$xSocial conditions 615 0$aEthnicity 676 $a301 676 $a330 676 $a900 701 $aHeng$b Derek Thiam Soon$0922848 701 $aAljunied$b Syed Muhd. Khairudin$f1976-$0924060 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139861203321 996 $aReframing Singapore$92073770 997 $aUNINA