Personal Identity Through Architecture in Singapore at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

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2012

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Wingfield, Valerie

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University of Oregon

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People from many different ethnic backgrounds settled in Singapore over the course of the nineteenth century, making new lives for themselves on an island with very little recent human habitation. The homes they chose to build for themselves reflected new, sometimes aspirational, hybrid identities. A close observation of these structures helps to form a more complete picture of social conditions in turn of the century Singapore.

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Black and whites, Chinese, Colonialism, Indian, Malay, Singapore

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