Editor:
Various
Synopsis:
Chapters on Asia presents the work of Lee Kong Chian research fellows from 2014 to 2016.
The papers presented in this volume explore a myriad of topics: cabaret girls in the 1940s and 50s; Malaya as depicted in early Hollywood films; early printing in Chinese; the activities of the London Missionary Society in Singapore; John Crawfurd’s ideas on ethnology and world history; Teochew oral history accounts; and the 1926 Netherlands East Indies communist revolt, among others.