Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s
by
Karen M. Teoh
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Education has long been a cornerstone of Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese norms have also held that the less education and exposure to influence from outside the home a girl had, the more likely she would be to remain true to conventional domestic values and to remain morally upright. In the mid-nineteenth...