榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective
Hockchew/Foochew people originated from the Mindong region of Fujian, China. Their primary dialect is the Hockchew or Foochow language. In Singapore, the Hockchew people constitute only three per cent of the population speaking non-mandarin Sinitic varieties. In 2017, the Straits Times reported a...
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| author | Zheng, Hao |
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| description | Hockchew/Foochew people originated from the Mindong region of Fujian, China. Their primary
dialect is the Hockchew or Foochow language. In Singapore, the Hockchew people constitute only
three per cent of the population speaking non-mandarin Sinitic varieties. In 2017, the Straits Times
reported an article stating that there are "less than half of the nearly 57, 000 Hockchews in Singapore
are proficient in the dialect". Currently, the language and the community are on the verge of extinction
in Singapore. As languages are the vessel of a culture, it is clear that the Hokchew culture, which
entails language, will soon face extinction.
This project aims to record and document the Hockchew communities in Singapore. This is
done through the creation of three publications:
1. The oral histories of the Hockchew people. Oral histories are chosen because histories are a
mosaic of smaller stories that decorate our collective histories. The histories and cultural
information of the culture were recorded in English, Chinese and the Romanised Foochow
script. By doing so, this project hopes to preserve and encapsulate the stories in a time
capsule, and the stories of the community will be remembered even after their extinction.
2. A record of the Foochow community’s history in Singapore. This will examine the history,
geography and communities formed by Foochow people in Singapore.
3. Folk stories and mini-stories in Foochow. This is to record and preserve the unique Hokchew
nursery rhymes spoken on the tongue.
As a graphic designer, I can use my skillsets to preserve the language by creating easy-to-read
reading materials that encapsulate the language and culture for the future. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1675232023-05-20T16:56:00Z 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective Zheng, Hao Jesvin Yeo Puay Hwa School of Art, Design and Media JesvinYeo@ntu.edu.sg Visual arts and music::Design Hockchew/Foochew people originated from the Mindong region of Fujian, China. Their primary dialect is the Hockchew or Foochow language. In Singapore, the Hockchew people constitute only three per cent of the population speaking non-mandarin Sinitic varieties. In 2017, the Straits Times reported an article stating that there are "less than half of the nearly 57, 000 Hockchews in Singapore are proficient in the dialect". Currently, the language and the community are on the verge of extinction in Singapore. As languages are the vessel of a culture, it is clear that the Hokchew culture, which entails language, will soon face extinction. This project aims to record and document the Hockchew communities in Singapore. This is done through the creation of three publications: 1. The oral histories of the Hockchew people. Oral histories are chosen because histories are a mosaic of smaller stories that decorate our collective histories. The histories and cultural information of the culture were recorded in English, Chinese and the Romanised Foochow script. By doing so, this project hopes to preserve and encapsulate the stories in a time capsule, and the stories of the community will be remembered even after their extinction. 2. A record of the Foochow community’s history in Singapore. This will examine the history, geography and communities formed by Foochow people in Singapore. 3. Folk stories and mini-stories in Foochow. This is to record and preserve the unique Hokchew nursery rhymes spoken on the tongue. As a graphic designer, I can use my skillsets to preserve the language by creating easy-to-read reading materials that encapsulate the language and culture for the future. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design Art 2023-05-15T04:39:04Z 2023-05-15T04:39:04Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Zheng, H. (2023). 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167523 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167523 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Visual arts and music::Design Zheng, Hao 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective |
| title | 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective |
| title_full | 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective |
| title_fullStr | 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective |
| title_short | 榕葉冊 • Banyan collection: documentation, preservation, archival and visual presentation of Singaporean Foochow culture through a micro-history perspective |
| title_sort | 榕葉冊 • banyan collection documentation preservation archival and visual presentation of singaporean foochow culture through a micro history perspective |
| topic | Visual arts and music::Design |
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