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Our place in time : exploring heritage and memory in Singapore.
- Title
- Our place in time : exploring heritage and memory in Singapore.
- Publication
- Singapore : Singapore Heritage Society : Distributed by Select Books, c1999.
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- Description
- ix, 216 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Note
- Essays presented as a conference organized by the Singapore Heritage Society and the Substation, September 17-18, 1994.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- One contribution in Chinese.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface / Kwok Kian-Woon and Kwa Chong Guan -- Introduction -- Our Place in Time: A Preliminary Reflection / Kwok Kian-Woon, Lily Kong, Kuo Pao Kun, Kwa Chong Guan, William Lim, Tan Beng Luan and Brenda Yeoh -- I. Remembering: My Country and My People / Lee Tzu Pheng; Forgetting to Remember / Janadas Devon; Commentary: A Malay Perspective / Raman Daud; Commentary: Our Place in Time -- Re-creating Ourselves and Our Selves / Koh Tai Ann; Remembering Ourselves / Kwa Chong Guan; Commentary / Hong Lysa -- II. Recreating: Tradition: Looking at the 'Other' side / Ismail Talib; Constituting and Re-constituting the Religious Domain in the Modern Nation State of Singapore / Vineeta Sinha; Making and Managing Tradition in Singapore: The National Day Parade / Ananda Rajah; Two Imaginings: The Past in Present Singapore / Alvin Tan Peng Hong -- III. Place-Making: The Notion of Place in the Construction of History, Nostalgia and Heritage / Brenda Yeoh and Lily Kong; Commentary / Wong Chong Thai Bobby; The Place of Nature in Singapore / Ho Hua Chew; Heritage and Planning / Malone Lee Lai Choo -- IV. Sharing: Searching for Our Place in Time / Frances Low Pooi Fong; Bridging the Gap between the Two Worlds: the English-educated and the Chinese-educated / Lau Wai Har; Multi-culturalism: Cultural Enablement and Inter-cultural Dialogue / Ho Chee Lick.
- ISBN
- 9810412746
- OCLC
- 42851201
- SCSB-11424665
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library