Chapters on Asia: Selected Papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2014−2016)

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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.


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NLB


Book Details

ISBN 9789811163456

Paperback, 294 pages



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