Selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship. Topics include the lifestyles of colonial administrators and their families in Singapore, how literary texts represent space and place by examing four works of Singaporean fiction, early multi-ethnic Roman Catholic communities, and the Japanese army’s covert operation in Singapore and the Riau islands in the early 20th century.
- Title
- Chapters on Asia : selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2019)
- Creator
- Harper, Emma
Tam Ong, Y-Lynn
Rerceretnam, Marc Sebastian
Watanabe, Yosuke
- Subject
- Colonial administrators--Singapore--History
Singaporean fiction--Appreciation
Peranakan (Asian people)--Singapore--History
Catholic Church--Singapore--History
Singapore--History--1867-1942
Japan--Armed Forces--Singapore--History
History
Colonial administrators
Literature
Churches
- Publisher
- National Library Board Singapore, 2020
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, 980 KB, 50 p. : ill., maps
- Table of Contents
- Ch. 1. “Exiles and prisoners on a cramped little island”? : exploring accounts of the lifestyles of colonial administrators and their families in Singapore c. 1870-1920 / Emma Harper
ch. 2. All is utterly changed : representations of space in fistful of colours, if we dream too long, first loves, and Raffles place ragtime / Tam Ong Y-Lynn
ch. 3. Intermarriages, religious conversions and new Peranakans within multi-ethnic communities in colonial Singapore : early multi-ethnic Roman Catholic communities, c. 1830s to 1850s / Marc Sebastian Rerceretnam
ch. 4. A prelude to an invasion? : the Japanese army’s covert operation in Singapore and the Riau islands in the early 20th century / Yosuke Watanabe.
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