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Chinese Heritage Centre -
Museums, Tourist Attractions
Chinese
Heritage Centre
Contact: Leo Suryadinata
Address: 12 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637721
Tel: (65) 6790-6176
Fax: (65) 6792-0017
e-mail:
chc@ntu.edu.sg
chcleos@ntu.edu.sg
Website:
http://www.chineseheritagecentre.org Categories: Museums, Tourist Attractions Company Profile: A museum and heritage centre
focusing on Chinese venturing outside
China; publications: Journal of Chinese Overseas,
Encyclopaedia of Chinese Overseas, A
Pictorial History of Nantah, Singapore Chinese Heritage
Studies
The
Chinese Heritage Centre (CHC) was founded in 1995 to
advance knowledge and understanding of the ethnic
Chinese communities in different parts of the world.
Established as a non-profit organization, the
Centre’s work is guided by an international Board of
Governors. The current Board Chairman is Professor
Su Guaning, President of Nanyang Technological
University. The Centre’s Deputy Chairman is
Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman of the East Asian
Institute, National University of Singapore and
former Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong
Kong.
The Centre undertakes a range of public education,
documentation and research activities. One of the
major project CHC had undertaken was the publication
of The Encyclopaedia of the Chinese Overseas in
1998.
Now into its second print, this publication is the
standard reference on the Chinese Overseas and is
printed in Chinese, English and French.
Journal of the Chinese Overseas(JCO) is an
internationally refereed journal published in
English twice a year in May and November under the
auspices of the International Society for the Study
of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO). This is a publication
devoted to the multi-disciplinary study of the
Chinese overseas. An inaugural issue was launched in
May 2005.
The CHC also aims to be a leading research and
resource center on the Chinese outside China. Its
Wang Gungwu Library is an excellent resource center
for scholars, researchers and students with over
30,000 books in its collection.
The Centre is also the coordinator for Huayinet
which is an online website (www.huayinet.org) of the
Inter-Agency Committee on Chinese Overseas Databank
and Research Collection.The committee is made up of
13 Singapore-based organizations. Through this web
site, information and material on the Chinese
diaspora is easily accessible to the international
community.
A brand new exhibition in the CHC called Chinese
More Or Less: An exhibiton on Overseas Chinese
Identity has been unveiled in July 2005. It replaces
the former permanent exhibition entitled From
Segregation to Integration : Story of the Chinese
Overseas which had attracted many student groups,
scholars and overseas visitors.
Housed in the newly renovated galleries of the
former Nanyang University Administration Building (a
gazetted national monument), the exhibition will
visually showcase themes related to “Chineseness”
and the Chinese identity.
Through the generous donations by Chinese business
leaders across Asia and major Singapore clan
associations like the Hokkien Huay Kuan and Ngee Ann
Kongsi, the Centre is able to fund these activities
so as to realize its mission :
To promote awareness and understanding of Chinese
culture and tradition among people in Singapore and
the world through the collection, preservation and
display of artworks and other objects of Chinese
culture.
The Singapore Government had given the Centre a $5
million endowment fund, and interest from the fund
had helped support the Centre’s work. Several
reputable donors have also pledged $1 million each
towards the Centre when it was first founded in
1995. They included prominent personalities like Dr
Li Ka Shing, Mr Wee Cho Yaw, Mr Lee Seng Gee, Mr
Liem Sioe Leong, Mr Chatri Sophonpanich and Dr
Mochtiar Riady. In 1997, the Singapore Totalisator
Board also gave a welcome $500,000 donation for the
redevelopment of the ground floor and the second
storey into a library and an auditorium.
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