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This chapter reconstructs the main changes in education for Chinese women living in Malaysia, in terms of accessibility, function, form and content, through the prism of the subjective experiences of four generations of women in my own family placed against a broader, more objective framework of overall trends within the respective twenty- to thirty-year generational time frame. Each of the four sections of this chapter covers one generation, from my grandmothers’ generation to my daughter’s, and tries to capture important similarities and differences in the experiences of women from the same generation, but from different social classes and backgrounds, to bring out variegated dimensions in changing educational opportunities, social values and gender perspectives.
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Malaysia, incorporating the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarah and Sarawak, was formed in 1963. Singapore left in 1965 to become a separate independent political unit. In this chapter, Malaya will be used where the context is clearly restricted to the pre-1963 situation but Malaysia will be used in more general contexts.
See also Ropp (1976) for changing trends in early and mid-Qing times and Nie (1993) for insights into the education and lives of elite women in late-Qing and early republican China.
See Yeap (1992, 35–36) for transcription of the ditty in Hokkien and its English translation. The title of Yeap’s book is taken from a line in the ditty.
Renamed the Penang Chinese Girls’ School, this is today the biggest Chinese girls’ educational institution in Penang, with separate primary and secondary schools as well as a kindergarten and Independent Secondary School, bearing the same name.
See Ting (2001, Chapter 5) for an account of new social trends in the 1930s and conservative reactions to them.
Such advertisements can be seen in Chinese newspapers of the late 1920s and 1930s.
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Ee, T.L. (2003). A Century of Change. In: Charney, M.W., Yeoh, B.S.A., Kiong, T.C. (eds) Asian Migrants and Education. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0117-4_10
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