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Bukit Brown chronicles: A brief cultural history of the Chinese in Singapore through the lens of a cemetery
Author(s)
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Singapore: Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations
ISBN
9789813278325
Citation
In Kwa, Chong Guan & Kua, Bak Lim (eds.) (2019). A general history of the Chinese in Singapore (pp. 169-181). Singapore: Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations.
Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Bukit Brown Cemetery was the first Chinese municipal cemetery in Singapore, opened in 1922 to cater to the burial needs of all non-Christian Chinese in Singapore. This chapter argues that the cemetery captured a fragment of the Chinese community’s cultural history in the inter-war years of the last century, profiling the emergence of a pan-Chinese consciousness, the regional embeddedness of the Singapore Chinese, and the cosmopolitan character of Singapore and its Chinese.
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