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History and the Imaginaries of ‘Big Singapore’: Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

Huang Jianli  and
Hong Lysa
Huang Jianli
Affiliation:
The National University of Singapore. His e-mail contact is hishjl@nus.edu.sg
Hong Lysa
Affiliation:
The School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. Her e-mail address is hlysa@eraydium.com
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Abstract

The establishment of the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall marks the PAP government's charting of a revolutionary, modernising genealogy of seismic proportions for the fashioning of a ‘Big Singapore’ as the political, economic and cultural focus of the Chinese diaspora. Such effort in reorienting history is problematic and the ethnicisation of national identity is contested, not least by Singapore's Chinese-language intellectuals.

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Articles
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 65 - 89
Copyright
© 2004 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this article, ‘Dissonant narratives of the past: Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Villa in Singapore’, was presented at the International Conference on the Ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia: A Dialogue between Tradition and Modernity, Singapore, 30 June – 1 July 2001.