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This title was first published in 2000: This is a discussion of the relationship between one group of Singapore Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian in China. It explores the various reasons why the Singapore Chinese continue to want to maintain ties with their ancestral village and how they go about reproducing Chinese culture (in the form of ancestor worship and religion) in the village milieu in China. It further explores the reasons why the Singapore Chinese feel morally obliged to assist their ancestral village in village reconstruction (providing financial contributions to infrastructure development such as the buildings of roads, bridges, schools, hospitals) and to help with small scale industrial and retail activities. Related to this is how the village cadres and teenagers, through various strategies, managed to encourage the Singapore Chinese to revisit their ancestral village and help with village reconstruction, thereby creating a moral economy. The main argument here concerns the desire of the Singapore Chinese to maintain a cultural identity and lineage continuity with their ancestral home. Ethnographically, this anthropological study examines two groups of Chinese separated by historical and geographical space, and their coming together to re-establish their cultural identity through various cultural and economic activities. At the theoretical level, it seeks to add a new dimension to the study of Chinese transnationalism and diaspora studies.

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REBUILDING THE ANCESTRAL VILLAGE When drinking the water remember the source - photo 1
REBUILDING THE ANCESTRAL VILLAGE
"When drinking the water, remember the source"
This book is dedicated to my parents
Rebuilding the Ancestral Village
Singaporeans in China

Kuah Khun Eng
University of Hong Kong

First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing Reissued 2019 by Routledge 2 Park - photo 2
First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing
Reissued 2019 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
Copyright Kuah Khun Eng 2000
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.
Disclaimer
The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondence from those they have been unable to contact.
A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number:
ISBN 13: 978-1-138-63419-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-315-20910-4 (ebk)
Contents
  1. xiii
  2. xiv
  3. xv
Guide
  1. Map 1 Cities and Counties of Fujian Province
  2. Map 2 Administrative Units of Anxi County, Fujian
  3. Map 3 Peng Lai District, Anxi County
  1. Chapter 5
  2. Chapter 7
Chinese terms and place names are transliterated by the Hanyu Pinyin system in the text. Some commonly used terms and names by the informants are romanised according to the Fujian dialect and are identified with a [H] immediately following the term. A list of the romanised terms and names and their corresponding Chinese characters is provided in the glossary.
In researching this piece of work I have benefited greatly from the assistance given to me by many people. I am grateful to the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, for some financial aid that helped to pay for the research assistants who helped me with the fieldwork and the interviews in Anxi. I am also extremely grateful to the University of Hong Kong for granting me a year of study leave and to the Harvard-Yenching Institute which provided me with the Visiting Scholar fellowship that enabled me to work on the drafts of this manuscript. I am also grateful to various people who had provided me with opportunities to engage in academic dialogue and have shown much interest in this work. I am grateful to my colleagues in the Department of Sociology, to Professor Wang Gungwu who has taken time to read and comment on the manuscript and to Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman who have shown much interest in this work. Various drafts were read at workshops in Taipei, Harvard, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands and the comments received are gratefully acknowledged here. I am also grateful to John Thorne who edited the initial draft of this manuscript, Eric Tsang for his assistance in the maps and photographs and to Clara Wan for helping with typing the Chinese characters.
While institutional and collegial supports have been important in the shaping of the manuscript, it is to the informants that I owe my greatest debt. I am grateful to the Singapore members and the Anxi villagers for sharing their thoughts and ideas with me. I am grateful to those who have endured my intrusion and suffered numerous rounds of interviews and questionings. In Anxi, I am especially grateful to the villagers and members of the lineage for helping me with all my needs and demands. Without their readiness to assist and their openness to answer all my queries, it would have been very difficult for me to complete this work. Needless to say, any shortcoming remains my sole responsibility.
I also wish to acknowledge the following publishers, with their kind permission, to reproduce part of my articles and chapters for the following chapters found in this book. (1) For , "Doing Anthropology within a Transnational Framework: A Study of the Singapore Chinese and Emigrant Village Ties" in Cheung, S. (ed.), 1998, On South China Track, Hong Kong: Institute of Asia-Pacific, Chinese University of Hong Kong, pp. 81-109
Finally, let me acknowledge the assistance that my parents and extended family have provided me. They have been very generous with their time and patience. My husband, Matt Pearce has been most encouraging, looking after our newborn daughter which has enabled me to work and complete this book. I am also grateful to him for the final editing of this work.
As the saying goes, "when drinking water, remember the source". I wish to dedicate this book to my parents for all that they have done for us.
Maps
1 Peng Lai Zhen 2 Kui Tou Zhen 3 Lian Zhong Village 4 Lian Meng Village 5 Ling - photo 3
1 Peng Lai Zhen 2 Kui Tou Zhen 3 Lian Zhong Village 4 Lian Meng Village 5 Ling - photo 4
1 Peng Lai Zhen 2 Kui Tou Zhen 3 Lian Zhong Village 4 Lian Meng Village 5 Ling - photo 5
1 Peng Lai Zhen
2 Kui Tou Zhen
3 Lian Zhong Village
4 Lian Meng Village
5 Ling Dong Village
6 Ling Nan Village
7 Peng Xi Village
8 Kui Tou Village
Introduction
This is a study of the relationship between two groups of Chinese, the Singapore Chinese and the village counterparts in Anxi County, Fujian. It investigates the Singapore Chinese and the search for cultural roots by tracing their origins to their ancestral home village in Anxi, resulting in the revival of the Chinese lineage. Anxi County is popularly known as the district of emigrant villages, or qiaoxiang (), from which people emigrated to various parts of the world, especially to Southeast Asia, during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries.
Since the early 1990s, there has been much interest in the study of the qiaoxiang and of the Chinese in overseas communities. While some literary works have focussed on the attempts of the "Chinese overseas" to trace their roots back to their home villages in China, there has been very little systematic work done on the relationship between the Chinese overseas and their qiaoxiang connections.
The central focus of this study is to address the questions of why the Singapore Chinese continue to be interested in their ancestral home villages and why the Singapore Chinese, and especially those locally born, have become involved in the life and in the socio-economic reconstruction of their ancestral villages as well as the reconstruction of their own culture. This study is thus about the creation of a moral economy which resulted in the ancestral villages experiencing general prosperity within the county.
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