This volume presents papers by the Lee Kong Chian research fellows from 2017-2018. The works presented explore topics such as the decline of Malay shipping in the Malay Peninsula; writer Liu Yichang’s time in Singapore; an ethnohistory of Singaporean-Javanese diaspora; discourses in Hsu Yun-Tsiao’s 1933 diary; and Southeast Asian photobooks after World War II.