Chapters on Asia : selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2014-2016)
Electronic Book 216.73.216.191 (0)
2018
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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”—Foreword.
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- Title
- Chapters on Asia : selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2014-2016)
- Subject
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- Singapore--History
- Southeast Asia--History
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore, 2018
- National Library Board Singapore, 2018
- Contributors
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- National Library Board Singapore
- National Library Board Singapore
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.)
- Table of Contents
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- cabarets, charity and cheongsams / Adeline Foo – ch. 3. A historical perspective of Singapore’s changing role in early printing in the Chinese language, 1825–1902 / Lee Ching Seng – ch. 4.The London Missionary society in colonial Singapore / Sandra Hudd – ch. 5. Singapore’s Tamil writers: works on social progression in post-Independence Singapore / Venkat Subramanian Narayanan (Maalan) – ch. 6. Colonial discourse in perspective: the Malay Peninsula in John Crawfurd’s ideas on ethnology and world history / Wilbert Wong Wei Wen – ch. 7. An old Teochew oral account sheds new light on the 1819 founding of Singapore / Jason Heng – ch. 8. From world religion to world order: Confucianism in the Straits at the turn of the 20th century (c. 1890s–1910s) / Ivana Prazic – ch. 10. The Netherlands East Indies 1926 Communist revolt revisited: new discoveries from Singapore’s digital newspaper archives / Kankan Xie.
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- All rights reserved. National Library Board Singapore, 2018