A general history of the Chinese in Singapore

Foreword by the Prime Minister of Singapore -- Message by SFCCA Honorary President -- Message by SFCCA President -- Preface by Wang Gungwu -- Editors' note -- Prelude to the history of the Chinese in Singapore / Kwa Chong Guan -- Junk trade and gambier industry. Chinese junk trade in early Singapore / Lee Yip Lim ; Gambier and early development of Singapore / Lim Guan Hock -- Chinatown: cradle of Chinese community development / Lim Guan Hock -- Singapore Chinese Community. Social structure and Bang interactions / Lim How Seng ; Chinese leadership and its political transformation / C F Yong ; The knots of the Chinese secret societies in early Singapore / Mak Lau-Fong ; Bukit Brown chronicles: a brief cultural history of the Chinese in Singapore through the lens of a cemetery / Hui Yew-Foong -- Qing Government and Singapore Chinese community. Rivalry between Straits Settlements government and Chinese Consulate in Singapore (1877–1894) / Lim How Seng ; Sales of Qing titles and the Chinese leadership in Singapore (1877–1912) / Yen Ching-hwang -- Straits-born Chinese. The colonial state in the making of a Peranakan community / Kwa Chong Guan ; The Peranakan's interconnected world: hybridity, diversity and challenges / John Teo ; Peranakan community and culture / Ng Fooi Beng -- Confucianism revived in early Singapore and Malaya, 1899–1911 / Yen Ching-hwang -- Chinese business community. Bang trade specialisation of the Chinese community in Singapore / Cheng Lim Keak ; Chinese business in Singapore: a historical and historiographical survey / Koh Keng We ; Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry: an institution in transition / Jeremy Goh -- Chinese printing and dailies. 19th-century printing in the Chinese language / Lee Ching Seng ; A century of the Chinese dailies / Choi Kwai Keong -- Chinese education. Development of Chinese education in Singapore (1819–1979) / Lim Guan Hock ; A window into Nanyang University: controversy over the 1965 Wang Gungwu report / Huang Jianli -- Traditional Chinese culture and religious beliefs. Traditional religious beliefs, emigration and the social structure of the Chinese in Singapore / Cheng Lim Keak ; Chinese temples and the transnational networks: Hokkien community in Singapore / Hue Guan Thye ; Festival, community and identity: the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Singapore / Koh Keng We -- Culture and art. The story of art in Singapore / Teo Han Wue ; Chinese performing arts / Chua Soo Pong ; Chinese movie and TV serial industry / Yap Soo Ei -- Money by mail to China: Qiaopi and Chinese remittance in Singapore / Kua Bak Lim -- The Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement / Lim How Seng -- The Chinese community in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation / Lee Geok Boi -- Political awakening and nation-building. The political dilemmas and transformation of the Straits-born Chinese community in the era of decolonisation / Kwa Chong Guan ; Lim Chin Siong and his legacy of left-wing activism in the fight for nationhood / Kevin Y L Tan ; Lee Kuan Yew: founding father of modern Singapore / Giam Meng Tuck -- Chinese society in the 21st century. The Speak Mandarin Campaign / Eddie C Y Kuo ; Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations: apex of Singapore Chinese community / Kua Bak Lim ; Chinese new immigrants / Ou Yali -- Retrospect and reflection. The study of Singapore Chinese in retrospect / Choi Kwai Keong, Lim How Seng and Kua Bak Lim ; The Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall and the Chinese community of Singapore: history, repositioning and contestation / Huang Jianli -- Appendix I. Chronology of Singapore Chinese history -- Appendix II. Fifty prominent Chinese in Singapore -- Appendix III. Important historical monuments and artefacts - Glossary.