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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.
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.
Mohamed Nasir, Kamaludeen. "Protected Sites: Reconceptualising Secret Societies in Colonial and Postcolonial Singapore" Journal of Historical Sociology (2016) 29#2 pp. 232-249. Lim, Irene (1999). Secret Societies in Singapore (Featuring the William Stirling Collection). National Heritage Board, Singapore History Museum. ISBN 978-9813018792.
The Singapore Department of Statistics defines "Chinese" as a "race" or "ethnic group", in conjunction with "Malay, Indian and Others" under the CMIO model. [10] They consist of "persons of Chinese origin" such as the Hokkiens, Teochews, Hainanese, Cantonese, Hakka, Henghuas, Hokchias and Foochows, Shanghainese, Northern Chinese, etc." [11] Chinese Singaporeans are defined as the "Chinese ...
The library was officially opened on 31 January 2013 by then Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information Mr Lawrence Wong. It is NLB's first library run by volunteers. [3] The library was designed by Multiply Architects LLP and the library was completed in 2012. [1]
Asian Culture (Yazhou Wenhua, 亞洲文化) is an international refereed bilingual academic journal published by the Singapore Society of Asian Studies. Asian Culture was inaugurated in February 1983 and has published a total of 44 issues by 2020. It is an international refereed journal that publishes quality research papers in all aspects of ...
Chinatown (Chinese: 唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
The China Cultural Centre (Chinese: 中国文化中心) is a cultural center about China in Central Area, Singapore. It should not be confused with the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre , a local charity patroned by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong , located at 1 Straits Boulevard.