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主讲嘉宾: Prof. Kuah Khun Eng
Honorary Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong and Former School Head, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Sunway Campus
讲座摘要
The One Belt One Road Initiative (OBORI) establishes China’s ascendency on the world stage. While infrastructural development constitutes its primary pillar of reaching out to the world, the OBORI has also cemented China as an important cultural player. This paper will examine new forms of cultural intersection between the Mainland Chinese and the Singapore Chinese Diaspora which has been carried on since the early years of migration, intensified since the Open Door Policy in 1978 and consolidated with the One Belt One Road Initiative (OBORI). There are several areas of cultural intersection that will be explored in this paper. These include food, Chinese popular culture, education, consumption and tourism. While there are similarities between these two groups of Chinese, there are in fact quite a gulf between the two groups. This paper will explore how the One Belt One Road Initiative reinforced cultural intersection and at the same time, established new sets of dynamics among these two groups of China, creating competitions and tensions. In so doing, it expands its transnational ambition to entrench itself more fully in the Singapore Chinese Diaspora community.
嘉宾介绍:
KUAH Khun Eng is presently Honorary Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong and will take up a visiting position at the Nanyang Technological University from January 2018 onwards. She was Professor of Anthropology and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University Malaysia. Prior to this, she was Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, a visiting scholar and coordinate research scholar of Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University, Oxford University and a visiting professor at University of Paris Diderot. Her research focus is on Chinese Diaspora-Mainland China Connections and Religion and Politics, focusing on Buddhism, politics and philanthropy, gender and social movements. She conducts her research primarily in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. She is the author of 2 books (one with Chinese version), editor/co-editor of 9 edited books, guest editor/co-editor of 4 journal issues and numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her new book Social Cultural Engineering and the Singapore State, will appear in 2018, published by Springer (Singapore, London and New York)
