Name: Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China (Routledge Revivals) (en Inglés)
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Author: Khun Eng Kuah
ISBN: 9781032261218

portada Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China (Routledge Revivals) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Routledge

Autor

Khun Eng Kuah

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Inglés

N° páginas

304

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Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781032261218

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Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China (Routledge Revivals) (en Inglés)

Khun Eng Kuah (Autor) · Routledge · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China (Routledge Revivals) (en Inglés)"

Originally published in 2000, this second edition was first published in 2010. This is a discussion of the relationship between one group of Singapore Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian in China. It explores the various reasons why the Singapore Chinese continue to want to maintain ties with their ancestral village and how they go about reproducing Chinese culture (in the form of ancestor worship and religion) in the village milieu in China. It further explores the reasons why the Singapore Chinese feel morally obliged to assist their ancestral village in village reconstruction (providing financial contributions to infrastructure development such as the buildings of roads, bridges, schools, hospitals) and to help with small scale industrial and retail activities. Related to this is how the village cadres and teenagers, through various strategies, managed to encourage the Singapore Chinese to revisit their ancestral village and help with village reconstruction, thereby creating a moral economy. The main argument here concerns the desire of the Singapore Chinese to maintain a cultural identity and lineage continuity with their ancestral home. Ethnographically, this anthropological study examines two groups of Chinese separated by historical and geographical space, and their coming together to re-establish their cultural identity through various cultural and economic activities. At the theoretical level, it seeks to add a new dimension to the study of Chinese transnationalism and diaspora studies.