Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China Reprint Edition

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Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China Reprint Edition

Author(s): Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce (Author)

  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Publication Date: 9 Feb. 2014
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 304 pages
  • ISBN-10: 908964332X
  • ISBN-13: 9789089643322

Book Description

This work illustrates the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian, China. It explores the reasons why the Singaporean Chinese continue to maintain ties with their ancestral village and how they reproduce Chinese culture through ancestor worship and religion in the ancestral village. In some cases, the Singaporeans feel morally obliged to assist in village reconstruction and infrastructure developments such as new roads, bridges, schools and hospitals. Others help with small-scale industrial and retail activities. Meanwhile, officials and villagers in the ancestral home utilize various strategies to encourage the Singaporeans to revisit their ancestral village, sustain heritage ties, and help enhance the moral economy. This ethnographic study examines two geographically distinct groups of Chinese coming together to re-establish their lineage and identity through cultural and economic activities.

Editorial Reviews

Review

1. -Rebuilding the Ancestral Village� breaks new ground in our understanding of Chinese religion, immigration and the networks of relationship that link communities together in Greater China – comment by Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego[-][-]2. -This is the first book by an anthropologist to track a transnational lineage in Post-Mao era� – comment by James Watson, Harvard University[-][-]3. -This book examines how the Chinese in Singapore and their kinfolk in the county of Anxi in Fujian province confront different attitudes towards remembering. This is a valuable work of spatial ethnography� – comment by Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore

From the Inside Flap

Dit boek biedt een fascinerende kijk op de betrekkingen tussen China en Singapore en geeft inzicht in hoe de transnationale banden zich ontwikkelen en standhouden in de geglobaliseerde wereld.

De auteur onderzocht de banden die Singaporese Chinezen onderhouden met hun voorouderlijke dorpen in Fujian, China. Zij laat zien hoe deze migranten de Chinese cultuur in stand houden door voorouderverering en religie.
Ook wordt de morele verplichting om daar te investeren (aangemoedigd door de ambtenaren van deze dorpen) aangekaart. Deze etnografische studie laat zien hoe twee geografisch verschillende Chinese groepen samenkomen om hun afkomst en identiteit opnieuw vast te stellen door middel van culturele en economische activiteiten.

– Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce is universitair docent en hoofd van de afdeling Sociologie aan de Universiteit van Hong Kong.

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