The scripting of a national history [[electronic resource] ] : Singapore and its pasts / / Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli
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| Autore: |
Hong Lysa
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| Titolo: |
The scripting of a national history [[electronic resource] ] : Singapore and its pasts / / Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli
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| Pubblicazione: | Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press |
| Singapore, : NUS Press, c2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 959.570072 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnicity - Singapore |
| Soggetto geografico: | Singapore Historiography |
| Singapore History | |
| Singapore Politics and government | |
| Altri autori: |
HuangJianli
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-291) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : beginning of history -- pt. 1. Scripture -- 1. New testament : Singapore and its tensed pasts -- 2. Apotheosis : The Lee Kuan Yew story as Singapore's history -- 3. Sermon : Rajaratnam and Devan Nair as high priests -- 4. Liturgy : telling Singapore's past through oral history -- pt. II. Singapore's Chinese dilemma -- 5. Political vanguard : PAP leaders of the Chinese-speaking community -- 6. Language fault lines : the Wang Gungwu report on Nanyang University -- 7. Student political activism : articulation, contestation and omission -- pt. III. Con/scripting Singapore's national heroes -- 8. Toying with Pandora's box : the scripting of Singapore's national heroes -- 9. Imagining a big Singapore : positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall -- 10. Conscripting Chinese diasporic culture into national identity : taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens -- Conclusion : no end to history. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The scripting of a national history : Singapore and its pasts is highly relevant not only to academics but also for the Singapore general reader interested to see what are meant to be received wisdoms for the citizenry interrogated in a well-reasoned and engaging exercise, as well as for an international readership to whom Singapore has become a fascinating enigma. They may well be intrigued by the anxieties of being Singaporean. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The scripting of a national history |
| ISBN: | 1-282-70953-4 |
| 9786612709531 | |
| 988-8052-94-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780945403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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