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Schooling Diaspora - Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s (Hardcover)
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Schooling Diaspora - Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s (Hardcover)
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Schooling Diaspora relates the previously untold story of
twentieth-century female education and Chinese students living
overseas in British Malaya and Singapore. Traversing more than a
century of British imperialism, Chinese migration, and Southeast
Asian nationalism, this book explores the pioneering English- and
Chinese-language girls' schools in which these women studied and
worked, drawing on school records, missionary annals, colonial
reports, periodicals, and oral interviews. The history of educated
overseas Chinese girls and women reveals the surprising reach of
transnational female affiliations and activities in an age commonly
assumed to be male dominated. These women created and joined
networks in schools, workplaces, associations, and politics. They
influenced notions of labor and social relations in Asian and
European societies. They were at the center of political debates
over language and ethnicity, and were vital actors in struggles
over twentieth-century national belonging. Their education
empowered them to defy certain socio-cultural conventions, in ways
that school founders and political authorities did not anticipate.
At the same time, they contended with an elite male discourse that
perpetuated patriarchal views of gender, culture, and nation. Even
as their schooling propelled them into a cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic
public space, Chinese girls and women in diaspora often had to take
sides as Malayan and Singaporean society became polarized-sometimes
falsely-into mutually exclusive groups of British loyalists,
pro-China nationalists, and Southeast Asian citizens. They
negotiated these constraints to build unique identities, ultimately
contributing to the development of a new figure: the educated
transnational Chinese woman.
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