This photograph shows students and teachers of a local school. The Republican five coloured flag is featured prominently in the background. The writing at the bottom of the photograph indicates that this photograph was taken on “national day”, which was 10 October—the anniversary of the successful Wuchang uprising which led to the founding of the Chinese republic in 1911. The widespread celebrations of the Chinese national day in Singapore was a clear indication that the local Chinese community had a strong China-centric nationalism and identity in the period before the Second World War,
