...C. J. W.-L. Wee Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Contending with Primordialism: The ”Modern” Construction of Postcolonial Singapore C. J. W.-L. Wee E. J. Hobsbawm, in a recent address to the American Anthropological Association...

...C. J. W.-L. Wee The Singapore People's Action Party (PAP) state's adapted Euro-US modernist impulses were reflected not in high cultural achievements but in building construction. Since independence, the PAP has revamped Singapore's colonial downtown into a conceptually empty postnational space...

... and a Gramscian “constant struggle for hegemony” approach, this article discusses forum theater's relative autonomy from and susceptibility to the authoritarian and culture-industry logics of advanced industrial society. In 1993, forum theater was successfully introduced to Singapore by local professional theater...

...Jini Kim Watson This article examines literature from Korea and Singapore during the decades of rapid industrial and urban expansion following World War II. Using the concept of the “New Asian City,” the author argues that the growth of the cities behind these apparent “miracle economies” needs...

..., the latter with the movement for same-sex marriage and participation in the armed services in the United States. This essay extends the application of these terms to Singapore, where between 2001 and 2004 the state tentatively and partially relaxed its restrictions on homosexual activity (e.g., the “Nation...

...Joanne Leow This essay theorizes the cultivation, suppression, and cooptation of new forms of Asian tropicality in the material and cultural productions of contemporary Singapore. Originating in Anglo-American imperial discourse of the eighteenth century, tropicality suggests the social...

...Shaoling Ma The mergers and separations that shaped the decolonizing third world also made media history. Singapore’s separation from Malaysia on August 9, 1965, after two tumultuous years of union was no exception. Radio and television, which broadcasted the seminal moments, embodied the mergers...

...Andrew Alan Johnson Abstract Singapore depends upon foreign bodies to maintain its hypermodern, sleek exterior. For many Singaporeans, a live‐in foreign domestic worker (FDW) marks a milestone in achieving a certain kind of bourgeois lifestyle, but the incorporation of a stranger into the household...

...Brian Bernards As a repressed space that lies behind the national heartland and beyond the purview of the dominant ideological contestation between official and cinematic discourses over this heartland, Singapore’s “inter-Asian hinterland” denotes the spaces where three key interrelations play out...

...Daniel P. S. Goh Studies of Asian values discourse emphasize its link to the ideological articulation of Singapore's ruling elite in contemporary circumstances of global modernity. Significantly, an influential commentary has reflexively raised the postcolonial discomfort connected to the hybrid...

...Benjamin McKay The article investigates the disjunctive mirroring of images and representations through films that evoke the larger socioeconomic and political relations between Singapore and the Philippines. The two films analyzed are about related plights of Filipina domestic workers in Singapore...

... had investigated questions about the exposure of bodies to radiation. Their paths crossed at a workshop entitled “Exposure and Effect: Measuring Safety, Environment, and Life in Asia” at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where they discussed the meanings of their research and work...

...Lee Weng Choy 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle; or, The Rise of New Asia Is Not the End of the World Lee Weng Choy Two Anecdotes about Time 1. Channel NewsAsia (CNA)—the Singapore television station with am...

... state in Singapore will serve as the specific reference for this occasion. This is a strategic choice because it is in Singapore that the idea of Asian values still has the most credibility. Under the People’s Action Party (PAP), which...

... suspected as unlicensed brothels. The law was introduced in the Straits Settlements in 1870 and imple- mented in Singapore and Penang in 1872, and in Malacca shortly thereafter. On paper, at least, the Straits ordinance was almost identical...

... productions Lear and Desdemona, a colleague and I were invited by Ong Keng Sen, Artistic Direc- tor ofTheatreWorks, to attend the Flying Circus Project (FCP) workshop in Singapore in December 2000,1 as observers ofthe process. 2 The FCP...

...). Daniel P. S. Goh is assistant professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is the lead coeditor of Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore (2009) and has published on the comparative-­historical sociology of colonialism...

... Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World(2011). Kenneth Paul Tan is an associate professor at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He is author of Cinema and Television in Singapore (2008...

..., are diverse in composition as they include daily border crossers between China and Hong Kong (Waters and Leung, this issue), primary and secondary students from mainland China in Singapore (Huang and Yeoh 2005 ), and Korean English-language learners in the Philippines (Choi, this issue). Likewise...

... of a highly differentiated colonial topography. This topography included the British Straits Settlements (consisting of the islands of Penang, Singapore, and Labuan) and the federated and unfederated Malay States, reflecting the uneven nature of colonial authority on the peninsula.1 It also included...