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090706
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2009.
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An important but little-studied act in the history of postwar Singapore was played out at the margins of the city. Here, the state was involved in a major campaign to socialise the 'squatters' of urban kampong into citizens of a high modernist state. The fire hazard in these settlements also contributed significantly to the process, as the residents were mobilised into fire-fighting squads and politicians acted on behalf of the victims of infernos by rehousing them in emergency public housing. This article proposes a new approach to postwar Singapore historiography at the interface between politics and social developments. It underlines the social agents, spatial dimension and historical continuity uncovered in the venture.
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089888
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2009.
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'Singapore stories' are frequently tales of departure and arrival, but in the midst of this the nation-state has set out to construct a sense of permanence, and with that a future, such that the transits might become meaningful in the national narrative. Those who leave are supposed to be overseas Singaporeans; those who come, new Singaporeans. To this end, the country could do with an icon of mobility such as Zheng He, who evokes history, character and expansiveness. His legendary journeys stimulated imaginations and marked the apex of the navigational technology of his day. In mainstream historical accounts, he was a figure of peace, representing the mighty yet benevolent Middle Kingdom, and even a folk deity. The 600th anniversary of the launching of the first voyage in 1405 was celebrated throughout China and the Chinese diaspora. In Singapore, the Singapore Tourism Board and private agencies rode on the worldwide publicity generated by the 2002 book by Gavin Menzies - arguing that China discovered America before Columbus and circumnavigated the world before Magellan - to host a range of mega-events, including an international exhibition based on the book's claims. However, the celebrations were dampened by the efforts of Singapore-based Geoff Wade, a historian of Ming dynasty China, who has tirelessly disputed such claims. Other scholars and businessmen in Singapore have also entered the fray. From Raffles to Zheng He, Singapore's search for history serves only to emphasize its historical rootlessness.
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031136
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Ohio, Ohio University center for International studies, 1969.
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vii, 31p.
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Paper in international studies Southeast Asia series; no.10
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| 003903 | 355.0218095951/STE 003903 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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092111
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Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008.
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xxii, 707p.
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History of nation-building series
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9789812307958
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| 054585 | 959.57/LEE 054585 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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036537
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Singapore, Ministry of communications and information, 1985.
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338p.hbk
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0129766X
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| 025912 | 959.57032/SUD 025912 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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025007
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Singapore, Information Division, Ministry of Culture, 1982.
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270p.hbk
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0129766X
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| 021648 | 959.5705/SIN 021648 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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090297
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2009.
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This article attempts to fill two gaps in two sets of inter-related historiographies, that of the diplomatic history of Singapore and that of the Vietnam war. For a number of reasons, not much had been published about the foreign policy of Singapore from the historical perspective. The Southeast Asian dimension of the Vietnam war is also starkly missing from the voluminous literature on the war. This article thus tries to describe and explain Singapore's attitude towards the war as it evolved over the ten years - from 1965, when the war really began and which coincided with the year that Singapore became independent, to 1975, a period which overlaps with the first ten years of Singapore's independence. Hopefully, this study will provide an understanding of one aspect of Singapore's foreign policy in its first 10 years as well as offer one Southeast Asian perspective on the Vietnam war.
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