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CHAPTER 16: Singapore as a Centre of Southeast Asian Chinese

Some Reflections
    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814675413_0016Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
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    When Sir Stamford Raffles “discovered” the small island sandwiched between the Malayan peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago in 1819 he envisaged that Singapore's strategic location would make it the centre for maritime Southeast Asia and beyond. What he did not foresee was the huge influx of Chinese immigrants who not only built Singapore into a trading centre but also transformed it into a socio-cultural centre for the Chinese in the region…