Settlement Construction and Social Space Shaping of Sungai Lima: Study of A Malaysian Chinese Stilt Village
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chai Koh, Siang
Abstract
This thesis is an ethnography focuses on residents and the settlement architecture space of Sungai Lima, a Chinese village located alongside Malacca Strait. The thesis will first discuss the formation process of this Chinese immigrant society and the characteristics of its space, including the historical process of the settlement space and the changes of the form of houses. Based on historical remains and oral interviews, the author made diachronic and synchronic reorganization and analysis of the Sungai Lima’s settlement space.
Sungai Lima is a fishing village comprising of stilt houses that were built on the ground of intertidal soft mud. The villagers are descendents of immigrants from Fujian, China. The villagers combined their original cultural habitude from hometown (China) and the characteristics of local environment to develop unique approaches and concepts of space utilization and put into practice upon their housing architecture and spacing. The main purposes of this research are to unfold the historical changes of an immigrant settlement of Malaysian Chinese and the space phenomenon of the village. The author also discusses how these living scenes and life experiences influenced current villagers. The last part of the discussion focuses on the reappearance of hometown cultural values and belief system through Sungai Lima Settlement and their house spacing concepts, and the reflected ambivalent feelings about homeland and the multiple self-identity of the villagers.
Subjects
Malaysia
immigrant
Chinese
stilt house
settlement
religion
space
SDGs
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