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Managing Chineseness: Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore

Managing Chineseness: Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore AEDS Book review 8,4 Edited by Daphnee Lee Palgrave Macmillan 262pp. £79.99 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-137-58257-7 Review DOI 10.1108/AEDS-10-2019-187 In this book, the author made attempt at delving into the relationships among identity grafting, double hegemony and born-again Chinese. This helps readers to rethink the nature and construction of Chineseness in the context of Singapore with a particular focus on the conceptualisation of Chinese identity grafting. The book employed different evidence to buttress the arguments, in dialogue with Max Weber’s thoughts, for articulating the concept of Chineseness as spectrum. In Chapter 1, the author utilised the Weberian framework to draw how varied paths of economic success in Greater China added to the complexity in discussing Asian modernity and identity grafting. Given the developmentalist approach adopted in social engineering reforms, Singapore is unique in its unique ethnic management and the national project of Chinese identity grafting against the geopolitical context that Singapore straddled between East and West (p. 9). On top of that was Singapore’s deviation from mainstream postcolonial models that it welcomed multi-national corporations (MNCs) to augment state legitimacy. Using the example of “Eurotech Consortium International (ECI)”, the chapter illustrated the discriminatory measures towards local Singaporeans in a way that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Education and Development Studies Emerald Publishing

Managing Chineseness: Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore

Chung, Ming-Lun
Asian Education and Development Studies , Volume 8 (4): 3 – Oct 7, 2019
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AEDS Book review 8,4 Edited by Daphnee Lee Palgrave Macmillan 262pp. £79.99 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-137-58257-7 Review DOI 10.1108/AEDS-10-2019-187 In this book, the author made attempt at delving into the relationships among identity grafting, double hegemony and born-again Chinese. This helps readers to rethink the nature and construction of Chineseness in the context of Singapore with a particular focus on the conceptualisation of Chinese identity grafting. The book employed different evidence to buttress the arguments, in dialogue with Max Weber’s thoughts, for articulating the concept of Chineseness as spectrum. In Chapter 1, the author utilised the Weberian framework to draw how varied paths of economic success in Greater China added to the complexity in discussing Asian modernity and identity grafting. Given the developmentalist approach adopted in social engineering reforms, Singapore is unique in its unique ethnic management and the national project of Chinese identity grafting against the geopolitical context that Singapore straddled between East and West (p. 9). On top of that was Singapore’s deviation from mainstream postcolonial models that it welcomed multi-national corporations (MNCs) to augment state legitimacy. Using the example of “Eurotech Consortium International (ECI)”, the chapter illustrated the discriminatory measures towards local Singaporeans in a way that

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