Chapters on Asia : selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2017-2018) - BookSG

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.

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Title: Chapters on Asia : selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2017-2018)





Subject: Singapore--History
Southeast Asia--History
Asia--History
Shipping--Malay Peninsula
Liu, Yichang, 1918-2018
Javanese (Indonesian people)--Singapore
History
Shipping services
Writers
Publisher: National Library Board Singapore, 2019
Contributor: Zhuang Wubin
Nicholas Y. H. Wong
Fuji Riang Prastowo
Scott C. Abel
Lim Fong Wei
Digital Description: application/pdf, 2127 KB, 88 p. : ill. (some col), map
Table of Contents: ch. 1. Sailing to the horizon
ch. 2. In the tropical mood
ch. 3. Homecoming
ch. 4. Thai, Chinese and Malay modern
ch. 5. A mapping of Southeast Asian photobooks after World War II.