H8 SA

Islam -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century||Slavery -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century

DS591 RASMJ

Rickshaw men -- Singapore -- History -- 20th century||Rickshaw men -- Singapore -- Social conditions||Chinese -- Singapore -- Social conditions||Singapore -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works||Singapore -- Social life and customs -- Photographs

In fact, the two countries interact and cooperate in many fields ranging from economics, business, the arts, culture, education and the environment to military cooperation (that has progressed from bilateral land-based to naval exercises). This relationship is also manifested at many levels ranging from government-to-government ties involving the top leaders to people-to-people exchanges of tourists and students. Over the years, bilateral relations have not only deepened in existing areas but have also broadened into new areas such as financial cooperation and legal and judicial matters.

This article discusses how Chinese cemeteries were managed within the broader social and political framework in colonial Malaya and Singapore. This is done through studying the discussions of the Singapore Municipal Council and by looking at a Hokkien cemetery in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur. The article touches on how the colonial state increasingly came to regulate Chinese cemeteries, suggesting that procedures of burials and cemeteries not only enabled the state to monitor health and mortality trends but also to involve itself further in the affairs of the Chinese community at a time of expanding colonial political and economic control. The article further discusses the extent to which cemeteries were a marker of identity of the Chinese community. It was a marker not only of the wider Chinese community but also of dialect divisions