Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: From 1960 to 1985, the Chinese clan association movement was in abeyance resulting partly from the saturation effect and partly from government discouragement.There were over 300 Chinese locality/dialect and surname associations in Singapore as of 1976 [Cheng 1985: 41].Since the mid-1980s, while some old clan associations have been dissolved for various reasons, a few new clan associations have emerged, indicating a turn-around in government policy with regard to the roles of clan associations.The latest Chinese clan association is the Seng Clan Association ( gX:.f\; 0; lit ) formed on 3 March, 1993.Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Seng Clan Association, Dr. Ker Sin Tze, Minister of State for Information and the Arts and Education, announced that if there were people whose surnames had not been grouped into clans and wished to do so, the government would help them form their own associations [The Straits Times, 4 March, 1993: 25],
Author: Lim Keak Cheng
Language: Japanese
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W571881610