Review of Zheng Yangwen and Charles J-H Macdonald, Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China

Both Personal names in Asia: History, culture and identity and Rebuilding the ancestral village: Singaporeans in China share a common theme of individuals and communities having to change with the times. Personal names examines individual and collective reactions to societal transformation through name changes; Rebuilding the ancestral village examines Chinese Singaporeans’ collective memory of, and struggles to maintain ties with, such villages in China.