Cat's Entertainment: Feline Performance in the Lion City.

This article considers the distribution of feline symbols and figures throughout the cultural life in Singapore. A brief summary of legend surrounding Singapore is presented. Singaporeans are interested on how to use feline symbols to promote national values. In short, the combination of myth-making and anthropomorphized paw-holding that characterizes the use of Singapore's state felines underscores the ways in which Singaporean is as Singaporean does. The Singapore lion is only the latest representation of the vast, conceptually ingenious, ideologically consistent but generally sanitized and oversimplified phenomenon that might be called Singularpore.