things to look into

• examination of mixed-race or hyphenated identities
• construction of chinese identity and its influence from the chinese state
• SG's utilisation of asian values as a defence of conservatism (I know this as a surface level)

specific texts of note

• orientalism by edward said!
  • I have genuinely been sitting on this text for a year
• myth of the lazy native, syed hussein alatas +