Asian traditions and modernization
Subtitle: perspectives from Singapore
By: edited by Yong Mun Cheong.
Contributors: Yong, Mun Cheong.
Publisher: Eastern Universities Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Singapore -- Civilization.; Singapore -- Economic conditions.; Singapore -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
First published: Singapore : Times Academic Press, 1992.
Table of contents: title: The cultural horizon of South China's emigrants in the nineteenth century / Ng Chin-keong; title: Convergence and divergence, the developmental patterns of the Chinese traditional voluntary associations in Singapore / Mak Lau Fong; title: Some thoughts on modernization and race relations in the political history of Singapore / Yong Mun Cheong; title: Traditional Chinese customs in modern Singapore / Tong Chee Kiong, Ho Kong Chong, Lin Ting Kwong; title: Language as a mirror of traditionalism and modernization / Mary W.F. Tay; title: From kelongs to fish-farms / Cynthia Chou; title: The Singaporean Indian trader / Nirmala PuruShotam; title: The Confucian tradition and its future in Singapore / Lim Chee Then; title: Some theoretical problems concerning tradition and modernization among the Malays of Southeast Asia / Shaharuddin Maaruf; title: World-views, science, religion, and myth / Chong Kim Chong.