Schooling Diaspora
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-049561-9 (ISBN)
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.
Karen M. Teoh is Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Stonehill College.
Acknowledgments
A Note on Spelling
Introduction: Women, Education, and Overseas Chinese Identity
Chapter 1: A Little Education, A Little Emancipation: The Colonial Politics of Female Education, 1850s-1950s
Chapter 2: Barrier against Evil, Encouragement for Good: English Girls' Schools, 1850s-1960s
Chapter 3: So That They May be an Honor to You: The Nyonya Problem and the Singapore Chinese Girls' School, 1890s-1940s
Chapter 4: Rare Flowers, Modern Girls, Good Citizens: Chinese Girls' Schools, 1900s-1950s
Chapter 5: Home is That Which I Adore: Re-migration to China, 1940s-1960s
Conclusion: The Domestic Citizen and Female Education in the Postcolonial Era
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 23 hts |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 164 x 242 mm |
Gewicht | 496 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-049561-8 / 0190495618 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-049561-9 / 9780190495619 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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