Slice-of-life, nostalgia and dialects in shaping Singaporean-Chinese identity : a historical case study of Xinyao (1980-1990)

• Main Author: Liew, Keith Yuan Fu
• Other Authors: Els van Dongen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147253
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The idea of a “Singaporean-Chinese identity” was historically a mooted one, with the government and the Singaporean-Chinese community each having their own perceptions of what define “Singaporean-Chinese”. While it is common knowledge that the government had attempted to foster their version of a na...