Wan Boo Sow Lecture 2021

ORGANISED BY : Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture

Wan Boo Sow Lecture 2021: Building a Plural Sinophone Community: The Role of Rediffusion in Multilingual Singapore During the 1950s-1970s

Launched in Singapore in 1949, Rediffusion, the cable radio service rose to popularity among the local communities because of its economical service and diverse ethnic programmes. In addition to channels in English, Malay and Tamil, its Chinese channel includes not just Mandarin programmes but also programmes in various Sinitic dialects such as Hokkien, Cantonese, and Teochew. This lecture examines the role Rediffusion played between 1950s and 1970s in promoting a pluralistic Sinophone community in Singapore by working closely with the various clan associations organised around Sinitic dialect affiliations.

Free online talk.
Speaker: A/P Tan Eng Kiong (Stony Brook University)

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Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Format
19 June	3pm – 5pm	Mr Kua Bak Lim	Forever Remembering Dr Wu Lien-Teh Public Lecture “万古功名有天命”——纪念伍连德医生讲座	Online
3 July	2pm – 4pm	Dr Ong Soon Keong	Oneness Magazine: Promoting Singapore’s Multicultural Society in Chinese 以中文媒介来推广新加坡的多元文化社会：谈《华汇》杂志	Online
17 July	10am – 11:30am	A/P Tan Eng Kiong	Building a Plural Sinophone Community: The Role of Rediffusion in Multilingual Singapore During the 1950s-1970s 建立多元华语语系社群：“丽的呼声”在新加坡多语言社会中的角色（1950年至1970年代）	Online
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18 September	2pm – 4pm	Professor Kenneth Dean	Story of the Stones Part 2: Reading the Social and Religious History of Singapore from Stone Inscriptions	Online
2 & 3 October	9am – 6pm		Boundaries and Bonds: An International Conference on Chinese Diaspora (Bilingual)	Online
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14 November	2pm – 4pm	Ms Lynn Wong	Transformation of Ancestral Veneration Practices in Singapore: A Case of Century-Old Kinship-Based Clan Associations	Online
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