在东南亚华人研究领域,移民时代华人社会结构与形态的讨论,是涉及华人社会建构与演化历史进程研究的一个重要课题。本文以新加坡一个具有近2个世纪发展历史的帮群组织海唇福德祠绿野亭为研究个案,运用碑文、华人社团账本、会议记录、章程等珍贵资料,一方面从华人移民社会内部,具体了解与考察近现代以来,南来拓荒的华南移民如何在殖民地时代新加坡的时空脉络下、运用传承自祖籍地的文化资源再建其社会结构与文化形态的历史图像;另一方面,通过对这批珍贵文献的整理与解读,力图从方法论上重新审视与反思既有的东南亚华人社会结构与形态研究成果,并在前人研究基础上提出一些新思考。
In the study of Southeast Asian Chinese,one of the key issues is the social structures and forms revolving around ethnic Chinese over migration trajectories. This article focuses on an organization that grew out from the bang system in Singapore over two centuries,a cemetery named Haichun Fudeci Luyeting. The research is based on account books,records,and minutes of the Chinese social organizations. On one hand,it aims to examine how the immigrants made use of the cultural resources from their ancestral homelands in Southern China and reconstructed the social structures and forms in the colonial Singapore. On the other,it attempts to invoke new thoughts on the subject matter in terms of methodology.
Keywords: | SingaporeHaichun Fudeci LuyetingCommunalization of Temple and CemeteriesConstruction of Bang System |