“This evocative collection of more than 150 picture postcards offers a fascinating insight into Japanese society in Singapore in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Used as souvenirs and as vehicles for advertisements and personal correspondence, and even propaganda, postcards have taken on many roles throughout Singapore’s history, making them unique and valuable sources of documentation. Based on the Lim Shao Bin Collection of Japanese historical materials at the National Library Singapore, this important study illuminates new historical perspectives on the Japanese community as well as related subjects like tourism, war and empire in pre-World War II Singapore”--Back cover.
- Title
- Postcard impressions of early 20th-century Singapore : perspective from the Japanese community
- Creator
- Hong, Regina
- Subject
- Postcards--Singapore--History--20th century
Japanese--Singapore--History--20th century
Singapore--History--20th century
1867-1914 Port city
1914-1942 Cosmopolitan city
History
- Publisher
- Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2020
- Contributor
- Ling, Xi Min
Shimazu, Naoko
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, 8057 KB, 194 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
Introduction: postcard views
ch. 1. Mapping the world on postcards
ch. 2. Early Japanese tourism in Singapore
ch.3. Early Japanese community in Singapore
ch. 4. Circulation of Japanese postcards in Singapore
Acknowledgements.
All rights reserved. National Library Board, Singapore, 2020
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