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Singapore's Chinatown is known as Niu che shui [b] in Mandarin, Gû-chia-chúi in Hokkien, and Ngàuh-chē-séui in Cantonese - all of which mean "bullock water-cart" - and Kreta Ayer in Malay, [c] which means "water cart". This is due to the fact that Chinatown's water supply was principally transported by animal-driven carts in the 19th century.
Theory, Culture & Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1982 and covers sociology, cultural, and social theory.The journal [1] aims to work "across the borderlines between sociology and cultural studies, the social sciences and the humanities and has moved towards a broader transdisciplinary frame of reference."
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
A journal's SJR indicator is a numeric value representing the average number of weighted citations received during a selected year per document published in that journal during the previous three years, as indexed by Scopus. Higher SJR indicator values are meant to indicate greater journal prestige.
The Manhattan Chinatown contains the largest concentration of ethnic Chinese in the Western hemisphere, [2] and the Flushing Chinatown in Queens has become the world's largest Chinatown. [ 44 ] The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected tourism and business in Chinatown, San Francisco [ 45 ] and Chinatown, Chicago , Illinois [ 46 ] as well as ...
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 one-year impact factor is 1.39, and its five-year impact factor is 1.987, ranking it 71st out of 150 in the category "Sociology", 69th out of 138 in the category "Psychology, Multidisciplinary", and 55th out of 92 in the category "Communication".
The journal was established in 1956 as the Malayan Economic Review, obtaining its current name in 1969. [1] It is the official journal of the Economic Society of Singapore. [2] The journal covers economics in general, with an emphasis on economic issues in Asia. [1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor ...
Singapore's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Austronesian people that arrived from the island of Taiwan, settling between 1500 and 1000 BCE.It was then influenced during the Middle Ages primarily by multiple Chinese dynasties such as the Ming and Qing, as well as by other Asian countries such as the Majapahit Empire, Tokugawa shogunate, and the Ryukyu Kingdom.