How Long to Read Rebuilding the Ancestral Village

How Long Does it Take to Read Rebuilding the Ancestral Village?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Rebuilding the Ancestral Village by Kung Eng Kuah

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This title was first published in 2000: This is a discussion of the relationship between one group of Singapore Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian in China. It explores the various reasons why the Singapore Chinese continue to want to maintain ties with their ancestral village and how they go about reproducing Chinese culture (in the form of ancestor worship and religion) in the village milieu in China. It further explores the reasons why the Singapore Chinese feel morally obliged to assist their ancestral village in village reconstruction (providing financial contributions to infrastructure development such as the buildings of roads, bridges, schools, hospitals) and to help with small scale industrial and retail activities. Related to this is how the village cadres and teenagers, through various strategies, managed to encourage the Singapore Chinese to revisit their ancestral village and help with village reconstruction, thereby creating a moral economy. The main argument here concerns the desire of the Singapore Chinese to maintain a cultural identity and lineage continuity with their ancestral home. Ethnographically, this anthropological study examines two groups of Chinese separated by historical and geographical space, and their coming together to re-establish their cultural identity through various cultural and economic activities. At the theoretical level, it seeks to add a new dimension to the study of Chinese transnationalism and diaspora studies.

How long is Rebuilding the Ancestral Village?

Rebuilding the Ancestral Village by Kung Eng Kuah is 290 pages long, and a total of 72,500 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rebuilding the Ancestral Village Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 36 minutes to read Rebuilding the Ancestral Village aloud.

What Reading Level is Rebuilding the Ancestral Village?

Rebuilding the Ancestral Village is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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