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- Title
Analyzing the Little Nyonya: Portrayal of Cultural and Gender Expectations of Peranakan Chinese Life in Southeast Asia.
- Authors
Dawis, Aimee
- Abstract
The Peranakan Chinese is a unique hybrid community that is the product of intermarriages between early Mainland Chinese immigrants and the indigenous population in Southeast Asia. The Little Nyonya is a record- breaking, 34-episode Mandarin drama serial which debuted on 25 November 2008 on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The storyline, which involves an extended Peranakan Chinese family in Malacca and Singapore, is set in the 1930s and spans 70 years. The series was partly sponsored by the Media Development Authority of Singapore. The drama ended its run on 5 January 2009. The popularity of the drama sparked a renaissance of Peranakan Chinese culture in Singapore and generated considerable interest in Indonesia. This paper looks into cultural and gender expectations of Peranakan Chinese life in Southeast Asia as they are represented in the series, as well as the corresponding Peranakan Chinese history, culture and practices in Singapore and Indonesia. Through a series of interviews with members of the Peranakan Chinese community in Singapore and Indonesia, archival research, and an analysis of the serial itself, the paper explores indigenization and exchange between ethnic Chinese and their adopted countries in the era of globalization.
- Subjects
SOUTHEAST Asia; PERANAKAN (Asian people); CULTURAL activities; GENDER; OVERSEAS Chinese; DIASPORA
- Publication
China Media Research, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 1, p68
- ISSN
1556-889X
- Publication type
Article