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The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
No full textBy 1970, Singapore’s urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the People’s Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regime’s ‘emergency’ programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAP’s far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fire’s symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAP’s new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nation’s progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fire’s role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore
Study of Ho-doped Bi2Te3 topological insulator thin films
No full textThis publication arises from research funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund and the Research Complex at Harwell is acknowledged for their hospitality. This work was supported by a DARPA MESO project (No. N66001-11-1-4105). S.E.H. was supported by the VPGE (Stanford University). L.C.M. and A.A.B. acknowledge partial financial support from EPSRC (UK) through a Doctoral Training Award. Diamond Light Source is acknowledged for beamtime on I10 (proposal SI10207).Breaking time-reversal symmetry through magnetic doping of topological insulators has been identified as a key strategy for unlocking exotic physical states. Here, we report the growth of Bi2Te3 thin films doped with the highest magnetic moment element Ho. Diffraction studies demonstrate high quality films for up to 21% Ho incorporation. Superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry reveals paramagnetism down to 2 K with an effective magnetic moment of ∼5 μB/Ho. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy shows that the topological surface state remains intact with Ho doping, consistent with the material's paramagnetic state. The large saturation moment achieved makes these films useful for incorporation into heterostructures, whereby magnetic order can be introduced via interfacial coupling.Peer reviewe
Neoqiongphasma diaoluoshanense Ho 2013
No full textNeoqiongphasma diaoluoshanense Ho, 2013 E/T Neoqiongphasma diaoluoshanensis, Ho, 2013d: 408, figs. 1–3, 44. Type. Holotype: ♀, Diaoluoshan National Nature Reserve, Lingshui, Hainan, China, 7.VII.2011, George Ho Wai- Chun (SYSBM). Distribution. Hainan (Diaoluoshan), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 321, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Qiongphasma wuzhishanense Ho 2013
No full textQiongphasma wuzhishanense Ho, 2013 E/T Qiongphasma wuzhishanense, Ho, 2013d: 425, figs. 22–23, 43. Type. Holotype: ♂, 1800m, Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve, Hainan, China, 9.VII.2011, George Ho Wai- Chun (SYSBM). Distribution. Hainan (Wuzhishan), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 325, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Macellina qizhouense Ho 2015
No full textMacellina qizhouense Ho, 2015 E/T Macellina qizhouense, Ho, 2015: 97 (in Ho & Zhang, 2015), fig. 2. Type. Holotype: ♀, Qizhou Islands, Hainan, China, 27.VII.1934, unknown collector (SYSBM). Distribution. Hainan (Qizhou Islands), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on pages 328-329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Hainanphasma diaoluoshanense Ho 2013
No full textHainanphasma diaoluoshanense Ho, 2013 E/T Hainanphasma diaoluoshanensis, Ho, 2013f: 207, figs. 7–9, 11, 14, 16. Type. Holotype: ♀, Diaoluoshan National Nature Reserve, Lingshui, Hainan, China, 6.VII.2011, George Ho Wai- Chun (SYSBM). Distribution. Hainan (Diaoluoshan), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 333, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Qiongphasma huishanense Ho 2013
No full textQiongphasma huishanense Ho, 2013 E/T Qiongphasma huishanensis, Ho, 2013d: 418, figs. 32–33. Type. Holotype: ♀, Huishan Nature Reserve, Qionghai, Hainan, China, 3.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (SYSBM). Distribution. Hainan (Huishan), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 325, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Asceles albistriatus Ho 2013
No full textAsceles albistriatus Ho, 2013 E/T Asceles albistriatus, Ho, 2013a: 821, figs. 1–4. Types. Holotype: ♀, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, Ledong, Hainan, China, 16.IV.2011, George Ho Wai- Chun (SYSBM); Paratypes: 1♂, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, Ledong, Hainan, China, 16.IV.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (SYSBM); 1Ƌ, Exianling Limestone Forest, Dongfang, Hainan, China, 10.IV.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH). Distribution. Hainan (Jianfengling and Exianling), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Pachyscia hainanensis Ho 2013
No full textPachyscia hainanensis Ho, 2013 E/T Pachyscia hainanensis, Ho, 2013c: 82, figs. 1–4. Types. Holotype: ♂, 500m, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, Hainan, China, 20.VI.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (SYSBM); Paratypes: 1♂, 500m, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, Hainan, China, 20.VI.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (SYSBM); 1♀, 800m, Exianling Limestone Forest, Hainan, China, 13.VI.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (SYSBM). Distribution. Hainan (Exianling and Yinggeling), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Sosibia qiongensis Ho 2013
No full textSosibia qiongensis Ho, 2013 E/T Sosibia qiongensis, Ho, 2013a: 824, figs. 13–16. Types. Holotype: ♀, Exianling Limestone Forest, Dongfang, Hainan, China, 4.IV.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (KFBG); Paratypes: 1♂ & 1♀, Exianling Limestone Forest, Dongfang, Hainan, China, 4.IV.2011, George Ho Wai- Chun (1♂ in KFBG & 1♀ in GH); 1♀, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, Baisha, Hainan, China, 28.IX.2010, George Ho Wai-Chun (KFBG); 1♂ & 1♀, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, Ledong, Hainan, China, 16.IV.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (SYSBM); 1♂ & 2♀♀, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, Baisha, Hainan, China, 16–17.VI.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♀, Huishan Nature Reserve, Qionghai, Hainan, China, 2.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♀, Shangxi Nature Reserve, Wanning, Hainan, China, 4.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♀, Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve, Hainan, China, 10.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♂, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, Ledong, Hainan, China, 12.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH). Distribution. Hainan (Exianling, Huishan, Jianfengling, Shangxi, Yinggeling and Wuzhishan), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
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