History of sport in Singapore : exclusivity, hegemony, and the Young Men's Christian Association

• Main Author: Ng, Eugene Chen Jun
• Other Authors: Justin Clark
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Politics and government
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155974
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Singapore sporting system is an enduring export of British colonialism, the games played, the codification of rules, the moral values of sport, and the idea of competition and entertainment in sport. Britain’s colonialism of Singapore in 1819 saw the arrival of British governance, their practice...