Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 1997"

TL;DR: The authors discusses the types of Chinese identities in Malaysia, which have been influenced by localization, the process of becoming local, involving cultural adjustment to a local geographical and social environment as well as identifying with the locality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the revitalization of Eurasian identity in the 1990s was described as not a deep-seated emotional or primordial attachment to their identity; instead, it was used to improve the position of the community in Singapore.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the specific articulations of Malay identity for Malay secondary school students in one housing estate in Singapore and deals with the issue of lower levels of achievement by Malay students.

TL;DR: The notion of Malay identity has undergone various transformations in the face of political and economic changes over time as discussed by the authors, and it was centred on personal loyalty and kinship ties within a sultanate.

TL;DR: The impact of educational changes on the identity of the Chinese-educated or Huaxiaosheng as an analytical social category is examined in this paper, where the authors focus on Chinese language teachers and argue that educational experiences in a particular medium, in this case, Chinese education, influence ethnic identity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the contrasting tendencies in identity reformulation in Sungai Pencala have much to do with the differences in the way Islam has been used to promote the religiouslyexpressed interests of certain groups as with the fate of the increasingly differentiated urban-based Malays.

TL;DR: This paper used ethnography to deconstruct the labels "Hindi" and "Hinduism" and demonstrate how a complex of meanings can be attached to these labels only by attending to the socio-cultural and political specificities of their context of practice.

TL;DR: The lack of research on the history of political cartoons in Singapore and the kind of tradition it has evolved is what prompted as discussed by the authors to perform a rudimentary search through 36 years of The Straits Times (1959-1995) in a basic attempt to fill in some of the gaps.

TL;DR: The authors examines the changing role of national and ethnic identity in post-independence Singapore and argues that in comparison with 10-15 years ago, ethnic identities have gained importance over the national one.

TL;DR: A large number of series, especially in the American colonial era, problematized taken-for-granted realities shaped by the people's colonial experience as mentioned in this paper and the post-war years witnessed the production of more serials which mirrored the complex series of transformations that Philippine society has undergone.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how a wartime Japanese comic strip portrayed Japan's war against the Allied troops, the natural settings, customs and cultural forms of Java, and the relationship of the Japanese and the Javanese.

TL;DR: In this paper, a synthesis of data gathered through interviews, observation, textual analysis and secondary literature searches is presented, with a case study of the largest comics publisher in Thailand, Bun Lour Sarn.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a satire of state propaganda and raise questions about the impact of new foreign investment on morality and rationality under the SLORC rule in Burma and suggest some current popular concerns.

TL;DR: The authors examines the development of Malay editorial cartoons by focusing on styles and themes used since their first publication in the press of the 1930s and demonstrates the influence of cultural and political factors.

TL;DR: This paper examined the work of one Cambodian satirical cartoonist, Em Sokha, in the context of the historical background of cartooning in Cambodia and the developments in Cambodian print media since 1979.