State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya

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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主要作者: Kam Hing, Lee
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出版: Archipel 2017
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:archipel_286 https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.286 urn:doi:10.4000/archipel.286 en https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/286 2017-02-16T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/a1vj https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya Archipel Association Archipel info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2104-3655 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0044-8613 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/archipel Kam Hing, Lee 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 L’article traite des modalités de la gestion des cimetières chinois à l’époque coloniale dans le cadre socio-politique de la Malaisie et de Singapour. Nous avons analysé les discussions du Conseil municipal de Singapour et étudié les sources concernant les cimetières Hokkien de Penang et de Kuala Lumpur. Ce faisant, nous avons insisté sur la manière dont les autorités furent amenées à intervenir toujours davantage dans la gestion des cimetières, non seulement pour contrôler les questions sanitaires et de mortalité, mais aussi pour s’ingérer toujours plus dans les affaires de la communauté chinoise à une époque où celles-ci renforçaient leur contrôle politique et économique. L’article envisage aussi la question de savoir dans quelle mesure les cimetières sont des marqueurs d’identité, non seulement à l’échelle de la communauté, mais aussi à celle des différents groupes dialectaux. Alors que ces divisions avaient commencé à s’effacer dans la plupart des activités sociales, elles sont restées au niveau de la gestion des sites funéraires.
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description 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
author Kam Hing, Lee
spellingShingle Kam Hing, Lee
State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
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title State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
title_short State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
title_full State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
title_fullStr State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
title_full_unstemmed State Policy, Community Identity, and Management of Chinese Cemeteries in Colonial Malaya
title_sort state policy, community identity, and management of chinese cemeteries in colonial malaya
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