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AbstractThis paper will first provide a historical and sociological overview of the "Chinese community" and the "Chinese-educated" in Singapore, after which I shall turn to the personal experience of marginalization on the part of older Chinese-educated intellectuals. I then focus on the social memory of Nanyang University as a means in which such marginalization is contested. In conclusion, I highlight the efforts of younger Chinese-educated intellectuals in responding to the condition of marginality by taking on contemporary issues, rather than by refighting old battles, in effect returning Chinese-language discourse to issues of modernity - this time set in a radically changed environment from that of earlier decades.

After briefly tracing the development of cultural policy in Singapore since the country's independence in 1965, the dimensions & directions of contemporary cultural policy are outlined. Particularly evident is the government's goal of making Singapore a "global city of the arts" at the forefront of a cultural renaissance for all of Asia. The creation of the Ministry of Information & the Arts in 1990 & its establishment of the National Arts Council the following year are described, & their major policies & programs are reviewed, including promotion of the arts, an appreciation of national heritage, literacy, social harmony, patriotism, & international understanding. Statistical data are presented to document the growth of arts & theater groups during the 1990s, as well as public participation in these activities. The spatial consequences of recreating Singapore as a renaissance city of the arts are explored, focusing on the creation of arts housing districts, the "sanitizing" of the urban landscape, & the "Disneyfication" of the civic & cultural district. The place of cultural policy in a government increasingly involved in the global capitalist system is considered within a larger discussion of the relationship between cultural policy & modernity in the contemporary nation-state. 1 Table, 38 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

After briefly tracing the development of cultural policy in Singapore since the country's independence in 1965, the dimensions & directions of contemporary cultural policy are outlined. Particularly evident is the government's goal of making Singapore a "global city of the arts" at the forefront of a cultural renaissance for all of Asia. The creation of the Ministry of Information & the Arts in 1990 & its establishment of the National Arts Council the following year are described, & their major policies & programs are reviewed, including promotion of the arts, an appreciation of national heritage, literacy, social harmony, patriotism, & international understanding. Statistical data are presented to document the growth of arts & theater groups during the 1990s, as well as public participation in these activities. The spatial consequences of recreating Singapore as a renaissance city of the arts are explored, focusing on the creation of arts housing districts, the "sanitizing" of the urban landscape, & the "Disneyfication" of the civic & cultural district. The place of cultural policy in a government increasingly involved in the global capitalist system is considered within a larger discussion of the relationship between cultural policy & modernity in the contemporary nation-state. 1 Table, 38 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

This paper is an edited transcription of the proceedings of a seminar by thesame title on 4 May 1996 at the Boulevard Hotel Singapore