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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Colonial Singapore"”.
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
… ‘obscene’ prints in Republican Shanghai and colonial Singapore, two important Chinese publishing hubs in the early twentieth century. Using archives in London, Singapore and Shanghai, it first analyses the intellectual debates over the definition of yin (obscenity) in the Sinophone world, …
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Modernity, popular culture and urban life : Anglophone Asians in colonial Singapore, 1920-1940
… cosmopolitan port city in Southeast Asia, Singapore under British colonial rule was quick to embrace international trends in popular culture. The multiethnic, Anglophone, Asian middle-class was most influenced by new ideas and modern mass consumer technologies. In this thesis, modern …
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LABOURING TO LEARN: A SOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT AMONGST TAMIL YOUTHS IN SINGAPORE
… class on educational underperformance amongst Singaporean Tamil youths using the conceptual dimensions of ‘bridging’ and ‘bonding’ capital. The biographical narratives of ethnic Tamil students from lower ability tracks in secondary schools suggest that racialization in colonial and …