Writing identity in Peranakan literature : an ongoing and evolving project.

• Main Author: Lim, Reynard Yi Kai.
• Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50411
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

For most of the time in post-independence Singapore, Peranakan identity has been largely subsumed under the state official categorisation of Chinese. Its younger generations are also assigned Mandarin as their mother tongue and English as a first language with the result that many Peranakans today m...