Mothers, wives and… massage parlour girls? : how China’s “study mothers” negotiate social boundaries and stereotypes in Singapore

Since the early 2000s, many “study mothers” from mainland China (peidu mama) have undertaken the transnational “project of education” by accompanying their children to study in Singapore (Yeoh and Huang 2005). Coinciding with this period was the Singapore government’s launch of the “Global Schoolhou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Ashley Yuhong
Other Authors: Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44128