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Chapter 4: The Non-English-literate Chinese Students, Caricature, and the Creation Story |
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Historiographical Caricature 70 |
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The Chinese School 73 |
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Cultural Chauvinists, Ideologues, and Pragmatists |
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Revising the Education System 81 |
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The All-Party Report 93 |
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Chapter 5: Into the “Economic Miracle” |
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Stratification in Singapore and the Miracle Era |
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Everyday Life and English Monoliteracy during the 1980s |
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State Intervention 111 |
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English Monoliteracy and Familial Fractures |
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The Speak Mandarin Campaign 127 |
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Language, Class, and a New Phase in the History of Everyday Life |
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Chapter 6: Singapore’s Factories and the Economics of Language |
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The Factory Workers and the Creation Story |
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Aspirations, Debt, and Control |
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Gender and the Factory Worker’s Story |
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Labour Policies and the Move towards High-tech Industries |
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Remembering the “Economic Miracle”: The Perspective from Below |
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Chapter 7: The Price of a Miracle |
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Class, the “Five Cs”, and the Singapore Dream |
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Language and the Nuclear Household |
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Economic Mobility, Education, and Linguistic Cleavages |