Chua Beng Huat
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 97996 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chua Beng Huat |
| NOMBRES | Chua Beng |
| APELLIDO | Huat |
| FIRMA | HUAT C B |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 291 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Popular Nanyang
Area Studies and the crisis of legitimacy
In this paper, we set out Area Studies’ ‘crisis of legitimacy’, focusing on South East Asia. We distil this crisis down to three broad areas: ‘weak rules’ (the absence of an intellectual core), ‘hard borders’ (in the context of globalization) and ‘ancestral sin’ (Area Studies’ origins in the global North). We then use these as a springboard to explore three ways in which scholars have sought to address the crisis: the Inter-Asia initiative, proce…
On Chua Beng Huat's Liberalism Disavowed
Meaghan Morris in Cultural Studies in Asia
Meaghan has been part of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies project from the very beginning- she was at the founding conferences, organised by Chen Kuan-Hsing, in National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, between 1992 and 1995. The two conferences bore the title of 'Trajectories: Towards a New Internationalist Cultural Studies' and 'Trajectories II: A New Internationalist Cultural Studies', respectively. According to Kuan-Hsing, he was motivated by his…
Liberalism Disavowed - Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
Introduction
Inter-Asia referencing and shifting frames of comparison
Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture
No one would ever suggest conceptualizing Asia as a culturally homogeneous space. The adjective ‘Asian’ is complicated by a multitude of possible cultural references, from relatively culturally homogeneous countries in East Asian, such as Japan and Korea2to multiethnic/multiracial/multicultural/multireligious/multilingual postcolonial nations in Southeast and South Asia. For this occasion, I would risk this complexity and talk about East Asia plu…
State-owned enterprises, state capitalism and social distribution in Singapore
10.1080/09512748.2015.1022587
Multiculturalism in Island South-East Asian
postcolonial nations, the boundaries of countries in island Southeast Asia were determined and delineated by the respective colonial administrations prior to political independence. Consequently, the territorial boundaries approximately correspond with the territorial limits under colonial tutelage. Within these territories are to be found indigenous colonized population and resident immigrant populations encouraged by the economic opportunities …
Social media and cross-border cultural transmissions in Asia
Travels of Bollywood Cinema
Singapore as Model
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Global City Success as Identity Singapore as Model Fragmenting Singapore into Discrete Lessons Industrialization and Migration From Garden City to City in a Garden The National Public Housing Program Housing Estate Planning and Allocation Exporting Urban Planning Expertise Conclusion References
East Asian Pop Culture
The American labour historian Gary Cross argues that ‘consumerism is not an inevitable stage in industrial development. Rather it has been a choice made within complex cultural, political and social contexts’ (1993: vii). Furthermore, ‘increased consumer need would lash workers ever more firmly to their jobs’ (Cross 1993: 39). The consequent ‘work-and-spend’ culture has become an essential part of contemporary everyday life of all wage earners, f…
Disrupting Hegemonic Liberalism in East Asia
By the end of the twentieth century, it was conventional, among social and political theory circles in developed countries of the West, to assume that a liberal capitalist democracy would be the endpoint of political economic development. However, this hegemonic desire of liberalism has been frustrated by the apparent inability of liberalism to take root despite rapid capitalist economic development in East Asia. This is partly because the countr…
The cultural logic of a capitalist single-party state, Singapore
Singapore is a settler nation in which the majority population is descended not from White colonizers but from Chinese migrants. Being without proprietary claim to the land, the new postcolonial island-nation declared itself a constitutional ‘multiracial’ nation of Huaren, Malays and Indians, without the isomorphism of race, culture and nation. Lacking a pre-colonial political structure, the new nation was constituted on the template of a modern …
Being Chinese under official multiculturalism in Singapore
At the time of independence, there were three visible racial groups among its newly constituted citizenry: an overwhelming majority of ethnic Chinese; regionally indigenous Malays and a small percentage of South Asians. The Cold War conditions precluded the island-state from being a Chinese majority state; constitutionally the new state was declared a multiracial nation. The three groups were reconstituted as Huaren, Malays and Indians. Multiraci…
East Asian Pop Culture
Production, circulation and consumption of “East Asian” media products-fi lms, pop music and television dramas and other programs-within the region including the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Singapore (by virtue of its 78 percent ethnic Chinese majority population), are increasingly integrated into a loosely organized cultural economy, which can be substantively and discursively designated as “East A…
Port Cities in Asia and Europe
Preface Arndt Graf and Chua Beng Huat Part I: History 1. The port of Osaka: from ancient times to today Towao Sakaehara 2. Relations between Marseille and East and Southeast Asia Laurent Metzger Part II: Contemporary Developments 3. Three harbour cities: an exploration of the ports of IJmuiden (The Netherlands), Banjul (The Gambia) and Jakarta (Indonesia) Peter J.M. Nas, Timoer Reijnders, Eline Steenhuisen 4. 'Ever-changing waterfronts': urban de…
Singapore in 2007
In 2007, the People's Action Party government raised top officials' salaries, already among the highest in the world. Cultural liberalization has finally encouraged the gay community to invoke a seldom used parliamentary process to petition Parliament to repeal the Victorian law that criminalizes homosexuality. The government began to deal with some issues for an impending aging population
Southeast Asia in Postcolonial Studies
Southeast Asia, one of the most colonized regions in the world, is conspicuously absent in the expanding archive of Postcolonial Studies. This is partly due to the negligence of the many practicing Postcolonial Studies practitioners, including editors of anthologies. It is, however, more significantly a consequence of the preoccupation of Southeast Asian scholars who were otherwise occupied with the more imminent issues that face the Southeast As…
Singapore in 2006
In the 2006 general election, the People's Action Party won 82 out of 84 parliamentary seats. The purchase by the government investment company Temasek Holdings of the Shin Corporation contributed to the coup that sent Thai Prime Minister Thaksin into exile. Lee Kuan Yew's remark on the marginalization of ethnic Chinese in neighboring countries caused offense, particularly in Malaysia
Political Culturalism, Representation and the People's Action Party of Singapore
The PAP has been attempting, particularly since the early 1990s, to establish a ‘political culturalism’ that aims to produce individuals as ‘cultural citizens’, in contrast to ‘liberal citizens’ associated with the representative politics of liberal democracies. Cultural citizenship steers participation through ethnic or communitarian channels while at the same time restricting political contestation. Through this, the PAP has reinterpreted the m…
Sars Epidemic and the Disclosure of Singapore Nation
The 2003 epidemic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) tested the ability of several states in East Asia to keep it under control; this essay chronicles the steps taken by the Singapore government. Once the epidemic broke through confinement in hospitals into the community at large, efforts to keep it under control became discursively a “war against SARS”; epidemic is a “disease” that invades potentially all the bodies of the entire nation an…
Singapore's Routes of Modernity
Multiculturalism in Singapore
Dans cet article, l'A se penche sur la signification du multiculturalisme a Singapour. L'A compare ici Singapour, Canada et Australie, trois anciennes colonnies britanniques, pour analyser la composition ethnique et le discours politique des autoritees de Singapour. L'A souligne l'importance de la segregation socio-culturelle comme instrument de controle social sous couvert d'une politique raciale harmonieuse
Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture
Since the 1980s, popular cultural products have criss‐crossed the national borders of East Asian countries, enabling a discursive construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’ as an object of analysis. The present essay is a preliminary attempt to provide some conceptual and analytic shape to this object, delineated by its three constitutive elements of production, distribution and consumption. Each East Asian location participates in different…
Being Chinese under official multiculturalism in Singapore
At the time of independence, there were three visible racial groups among its newly constituted citizenry: an overwhelming majority of ethnic Chinese; regionally indigenous Malays and a small percentage of South Asians. The Cold War conditions precluded the island-state from being a Chinese majority state; constitutionally the new state was declared a multiracial nation. The three groups were reconstituted as Huaren, Malays and Indians. Multiraci…
Public Housing Residents as Clients of the State
Housing Studies
State-owned enterprises, state capitalism and social distribution in Singapore
10.1080/09512748.2015.1022587
Political Culturalism, Representation and the People's Action Party of Singapore
The PAP has been attempting, particularly since the early 1990s, to establish a ‘political culturalism’ that aims to produce individuals as ‘cultural citizens’, in contrast to ‘liberal citizens’ associated with the representative politics of liberal democracies. Cultural citizenship steers participation through ethnic or communitarian channels while at the same time restricting political contestation. Through this, the PAP has reinterpreted the m…
Area Studies and the crisis of legitimacy
In this paper, we set out Area Studies’ ‘crisis of legitimacy’, focusing on South East Asia. We distil this crisis down to three broad areas: ‘weak rules’ (the absence of an intellectual core), ‘hard borders’ (in the context of globalization) and ‘ancestral sin’ (Area Studies’ origins in the global North). We then use these as a springboard to explore three ways in which scholars have sought to address the crisis: the Inter-Asia initiative, proce…
Southeast Asia in Postcolonial Studies
Southeast Asia, one of the most colonized regions in the world, is conspicuously absent in the expanding archive of Postcolonial Studies. This is partly due to the negligence of the many practicing Postcolonial Studies practitioners, including editors of anthologies. It is, however, more significantly a consequence of the preoccupation of Southeast Asian scholars who were otherwise occupied with the more imminent issues that face the Southeast As…
The cultural logic of a capitalist single-party state, Singapore
Singapore is a settler nation in which the majority population is descended not from White colonizers but from Chinese migrants. Being without proprietary claim to the land, the new postcolonial island-nation declared itself a constitutional ‘multiracial’ nation of Huaren, Malays and Indians, without the isomorphism of race, culture and nation. Lacking a pre-colonial political structure, the new nation was constituted on the template of a modern …
Maintaining Housing Values under the Condition of Universal Home Ownership
Singapore provides analysts with the opportunity to examine possible systemic consequences of universal home ownership, which it has achieved through the sale of public housing. One important systemic problem is the need to preserve and/or enhance prices of older existing flats. This article examines the various strategies used by the Singapore government to solve the problem, especially when resale used flats are more expensive than the new, sub…
Introduction
Disrupting Hegemonic Liberalism in East Asia
By the end of the twentieth century, it was conventional, among social and political theory circles in developed countries of the West, to assume that a liberal capitalist democracy would be the endpoint of political economic development. However, this hegemonic desire of liberalism has been frustrated by the apparent inability of liberalism to take root despite rapid capitalist economic development in East Asia. This is partly because the countr…
Sars Epidemic and the Disclosure of Singapore Nation
The 2003 epidemic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) tested the ability of several states in East Asia to keep it under control; this essay chronicles the steps taken by the Singapore government. Once the epidemic broke through confinement in hospitals into the community at large, efforts to keep it under control became discursively a “war against SARS”; epidemic is a “disease” that invades potentially all the bodies of the entire nation an…
Asian values
This paper argues that the emphasis placed on the ‘collective’ as part of the rhetoric of ‘Asian values ‘, particularly in Singapore, has a potentially positive effect of limiting the excesses of rapacious capitalism. It argues that the insistence on privileging ‘collective’ or ‘social’ well‐being is both a moral critique and a moral alternative to the entrenchment of self‐interests in capitalist society. It is this moral conception of the ‘socia…
Singapore's Routes of Modernity
An introduction
Singapore in 2007
In 2007, the People's Action Party government raised top officials' salaries, already among the highest in the world. Cultural liberalization has finally encouraged the gay community to invoke a seldom used parliamentary process to petition Parliament to repeal the Victorian law that criminalizes homosexuality. The government began to deal with some issues for an impending aging population
Singapore in 2006
In the 2006 general election, the People's Action Party won 82 out of 84 parliamentary seats. The purchase by the government investment company Temasek Holdings of the Shin Corporation contributed to the coup that sent Thai Prime Minister Thaksin into exile. Lee Kuan Yew's remark on the marginalization of ethnic Chinese in neighboring countries caused offense, particularly in Malaysia
Singapore in 1981
Singapore 1990
The year under review started on two very different notes: one announced a year of continuous celebration to mark 25 years of nationhood and the other affirmed a change of prime minister before the close of the year. Much of the cultural energy of the government was absorbed in organizing the celebrations. The political energy was channelled into formulating a proposal to protect the national wealth, which was accumulated during the long term of …
Trade Unionism in Singapore, By Chew Soon Beng Singapore
Beyond formal strictures
Communitarian ideology and democracy in Singapore
Asian values
This paper argues that the emphasis placed on the ‘collective’ as part of the rhetoric of ‘Asian values ‘, particularly in Singapore, has a potentially positive effect of limiting the excesses of rapacious capitalism. It argues that the insistence on privileging ‘collective’ or ‘social’ well‐being is both a moral critique and a moral alternative to the entrenchment of self‐interests in capitalist society. It is this moral conception of the ‘socia…
Global Economy/Immature Polity
An introduction
Public Housing Residents as Clients of the State
Housing Studies
Immaturité des politiques et survie face à la crise économique
Avant la crise financière asiatique de 1997, tant Singapour que l’Indonésie pouvaient être décrits respectivement comme des régimes “semi-autoritaire” et “militaro-autoritaire”. Ces régimes accordaient la priorité au développement économique sur le développement politique. Lorsque la croissance économique s’arrêta, la légitimité de ces régimes s’affaiblit sans cependant s’effondrer. Le sort de ces régimes dépend essentiellement d’autres éléments …
Maintaining Housing Values under the Condition of Universal Home Ownership
Singapore provides analysts with the opportunity to examine possible systemic consequences of universal home ownership, which it has achieved through the sale of public housing. One important systemic problem is the need to preserve and/or enhance prices of older existing flats. This article examines the various strategies used by the Singapore government to solve the problem, especially when resale used flats are more expensive than the new, sub…
Multiculturalism in Singapore
Dans cet article, l'A se penche sur la signification du multiculturalisme a Singapour. L'A compare ici Singapour, Canada et Australie, trois anciennes colonnies britanniques, pour analyser la composition ethnique et le discours politique des autoritees de Singapour. L'A souligne l'importance de la segregation socio-culturelle comme instrument de controle social sous couvert d'une politique raciale harmonieuse
Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture
Since the 1980s, popular cultural products have criss‐crossed the national borders of East Asian countries, enabling a discursive construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’ as an object of analysis. The present essay is a preliminary attempt to provide some conceptual and analytic shape to this object, delineated by its three constitutive elements of production, distribution and consumption. Each East Asian location participates in different…
The Cost of Membership in Ascribed CommunityCHUA Beng Huat
This chapter explores communitarianism and single-party dominance in Singapore. It argues that communitariasnism as a political ideology is a discursive resource available to all contesting parties. In Singapore, after nearly forty years of People’s Action Party (PAP) rule, the positive outcomes in various areas of social life of the logic of ‘governance by groups’ will have a lasting impact on Singaporeans. Political parties seeking to contest p…
Sars Epidemic and the Disclosure of Singapore Nation
The 2003 epidemic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) tested the ability of several states in East Asia to keep it under control; this essay chronicles the steps taken by the Singapore government. Once the epidemic broke through confinement in hospitals into the community at large, efforts to keep it under control became discursively a “war against SARS”; epidemic is a “disease” that invades potentially all the bodies of the entire nation an…
Singapore's Routes of Modernity
Singapore in 2006
In the 2006 general election, the People's Action Party won 82 out of 84 parliamentary seats. The purchase by the government investment company Temasek Holdings of the Shin Corporation contributed to the coup that sent Thai Prime Minister Thaksin into exile. Lee Kuan Yew's remark on the marginalization of ethnic Chinese in neighboring countries caused offense, particularly in Malaysia
Political Culturalism, Representation and the People's Action Party of Singapore
The PAP has been attempting, particularly since the early 1990s, to establish a ‘political culturalism’ that aims to produce individuals as ‘cultural citizens’, in contrast to ‘liberal citizens’ associated with the representative politics of liberal democracies. Cultural citizenship steers participation through ethnic or communitarian channels while at the same time restricting political contestation. Through this, the PAP has reinterpreted the m…
East Asian Pop Culture
Production, circulation and consumption of “East Asian” media products-fi lms, pop music and television dramas and other programs-within the region including the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Singapore (by virtue of its 78 percent ethnic Chinese majority population), are increasingly integrated into a loosely organized cultural economy, which can be substantively and discursively designated as “East A…
Port Cities in Asia and Europe
Preface Arndt Graf and Chua Beng Huat Part I: History 1. The port of Osaka: from ancient times to today Towao Sakaehara 2. Relations between Marseille and East and Southeast Asia Laurent Metzger Part II: Contemporary Developments 3. Three harbour cities: an exploration of the ports of IJmuiden (The Netherlands), Banjul (The Gambia) and Jakarta (Indonesia) Peter J.M. Nas, Timoer Reijnders, Eline Steenhuisen 4. 'Ever-changing waterfronts': urban de…
Singapore in 2007
In 2007, the People's Action Party government raised top officials' salaries, already among the highest in the world. Cultural liberalization has finally encouraged the gay community to invoke a seldom used parliamentary process to petition Parliament to repeal the Victorian law that criminalizes homosexuality. The government began to deal with some issues for an impending aging population
Southeast Asia in Postcolonial Studies
Southeast Asia, one of the most colonized regions in the world, is conspicuously absent in the expanding archive of Postcolonial Studies. This is partly due to the negligence of the many practicing Postcolonial Studies practitioners, including editors of anthologies. It is, however, more significantly a consequence of the preoccupation of Southeast Asian scholars who were otherwise occupied with the more imminent issues that face the Southeast As…
Being Chinese under official multiculturalism in Singapore
At the time of independence, there were three visible racial groups among its newly constituted citizenry: an overwhelming majority of ethnic Chinese; regionally indigenous Malays and a small percentage of South Asians. The Cold War conditions precluded the island-state from being a Chinese majority state; constitutionally the new state was declared a multiracial nation. The three groups were reconstituted as Huaren, Malays and Indians. Multiraci…
Disrupting Hegemonic Liberalism in East Asia
By the end of the twentieth century, it was conventional, among social and political theory circles in developed countries of the West, to assume that a liberal capitalist democracy would be the endpoint of political economic development. However, this hegemonic desire of liberalism has been frustrated by the apparent inability of liberalism to take root despite rapid capitalist economic development in East Asia. This is partly because the countr…
The cultural logic of a capitalist single-party state, Singapore
Singapore is a settler nation in which the majority population is descended not from White colonizers but from Chinese migrants. Being without proprietary claim to the land, the new postcolonial island-nation declared itself a constitutional ‘multiracial’ nation of Huaren, Malays and Indians, without the isomorphism of race, culture and nation. Lacking a pre-colonial political structure, the new nation was constituted on the template of a modern …
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