Re-engaging Chineseness: Political, economic and cultural imperatives of nation-building in Singapore

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 175, 2003, Pages 751-774

  Tan, Eugene K B ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNICITY; NATIONAL IDENTITY; STATE BUILDING;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0141885214     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0305741003000432     Document Type: Article

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