Prof. HUI Yew-Foong2020-05-292020-05-292019In 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.9789813278325http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/5885Bukit 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.enBook Chapter10.1142/9789813277649_0008