Fung Public Seminar Series: The Emergence of a Civil Society: Law, Gender and the Media in 1950s Singapore

Name: Fung Public Seminar Series: The Emergence of a Civil Society: Law, Gender and the Media in 1950s Singapore
Start: 2025-02-13T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-13T13:20:00-05:00
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Thu, Feb 13, 2025

12 PM – 1:20 PM EST (GMT-5)

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In 1950, the annulment of the Muslim marriage of a 13-year-old Dutch Eurasian girl to a Malay schoolteacher in a British court in Singapore led to the most violent anti-colonial riots in the colony’s history. Through this case study, the seminar will focus on how intermarriage, religion, and child welfare had important bearings on Singapore’s colonial past and post-colonial present.

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Jialin Christina Wu

Fung Global Fellow 2024-25

PIIRS, Princeton University

Jialin Christina Wu is a historian of empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. She earned her Ph.D. in history at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, where she analyzed Malayan youth and their appropriation of two colonial youth movements between 1910 and 1966. The Presses de Sciences Po published her first book, drawn from her doctoral research, in early 2024. As a Fung Global Fellow, she will examine the production of colonial and indigenous knowledge on race and social order in British Malaya over the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies