State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
This article discusses how Chinese cemeteries were managed within the broader social and political framework in colonial Malaya and Singapore. This is done through studying the discussions of the Singapore Municipal Council and by looking at a Hokkien cemetery in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur. The arti...
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Taal: | Anglais |
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2017
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | This article discusses how Chinese cemeteries were managed within the broader social and political framework in colonial Malaya and Singapore. This is done through studying the discussions of the Singapore Municipal Council and by looking at a Hokkien cemetery in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur. The article touches on how the colonial state increasingly came to regulate Chinese cemeteries, suggesting that procedures of burials and cemeteries not only enabled the state to monitor health and mortality trends but also to involve itself further in the affairs of the Chinese community at a time of expanding colonial political and economic control. The article further discusses the extent to which cemeteries were a marker of identity of the Chinese community. It was a marker not only of the wider Chinese community but also of dialect divisions |
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