Curated resources for the contest
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Useful Links
If you need to know more about vanishing trades in Singapore to help with the creative process, check out some of these resources from the National Library and the National Archives:
“Popular Storyteller Lee Dai Soh Telling Stories on Air, 1966,” National Archives of Singapore, published 3 Jul 2015.
“Vanishing Trades,” LearnX, accessed 23 May 2025.
Janice Loo, “A Lifetime of Labour: Cantonese Amahs in Singapore,” BiblioAsia 13, no. 3 (Oct-Dec 2017).
Joanna Tan, “The Forgotten Trades of Singapore,” [video recording] A Librarian’s World, 2022. National Library Board.
Samsui Women. William Chin Fook Sang, oral history interview by Lu Wenshi, 16 Dec 2011. Transcript and MP3 audio, 37:44. National Archives of Singapore (accession no. 003676).
Sharon Teng, “Time-forgotten Trades,” BiblioAsia 9, no. 4 (Jan-Mar 2014).