Reimagining Singapore

by Chee-Hoo Lum, Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, Chor Leng Twardzik Ching

2023 · Springer Nature

This book approaches the subject of contemporary art by exploring the social embeddedness and identities of Singaporean artists. Linking artistic processes and production to both personal worlds and wider issues, the book examines how artists negotiate their relationships between self and society and between artistic freedom and social responsibility. It is based on original research into the discourses and artistic practices of local artists, with a special focus on emerging artists and artists whose work and perspectives engage with questions of identity. Reimagining contemporary Singapore and their place within it, artists are asserting their multiple and heterogeneous self-identities and contesting hegemonic norms and notions, as they negotiate and adapt to the world around them. This book is relevant to students and researchers in the fields of cultural studies, media studies, art, sociology of art, arts education, and race and ethnicity studies.

Ex-Husband, Be Self-Dignified

by Ming Zhuhai

2019 · Funstory

Only when she married him, who was secretly in love at the age of twenty-two, did she realize how much he hated her.After the first night, he left behind a few words beside her pillow, "I won't give you a child. Even if you want to die, I won't give you one!"She smiled wryly, closing her eyes and swallowing the medicine. The marriage was so cold that it almost made her despair. After the last courtship, she had been waiting for him at home for three months, expecting him to appear in the arms of another woman.He had taken his fiancée away to America, but she was kneeling in front of her father's spirit, her body bleeding from miscarriage.He was like a god who had fallen from the sky, and he began his resplendent life in the United States. And she was struggling at the bottom of her life, not daring to speak out loud and not daring to look up, all sorts of eyes wanting her to lose all the grace she had once had.When she had suffered through so much in her life, when she finally forgot the pain and no longer loved him and prepared to marry another man, he suddenly returned to the country and found her. He looked at her and sneered.Standing beside her was the child that she had given birth to. However, he stubbornly held her hand tightly, unwilling to let go.I don't love you anymore. I just want to wait for my husband to come back.He said, "I was the only one who could give you happiness."She looked at him in silence. But I'm already married, and I've never thought of getting married again.Even though he knew that she hated him to the bones, he still wanted to keep her by his side and not let her go. Fu Jingzhi, it doesn't matter if you hate me or hate me; I only want you to give birth to this child, a child that belongs to me alone!