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Chapters on Asia: Selected Papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2014–2016)
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27 February 2018
Chapters on Asia features selected papers written by scholars who have been awarded the National Library’s Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship. This edition consists of the following papers.
Singapore: National Library Board, 2018.
Searching for the “Real” Singapore in Hollywood Feature Films
Chua Ai LinA Peek into the Lives of the “Lancing Girls”: Cabarets, Charity and Cheongsams
Adeline FooA Historical Perspective of Singapore’s Changing Role in Early Printing in the Chinese Language, 1825–1902
Lee Ching SengThe London Missionary Society in Colonial Singapore
Sandra HuddSingapore’s Tamil Writers: Works on Social Progression in Post-Independence Singapore
Venkat Subramanian Narayanan (Maalan)Colonial Discourse in Perspective: The Malay Peninsula in John Crawfurd’s Ideas on Ethnology and World History
Wilbert Wong Wei WenAn Old Teochew Oral Account Sheds New Light on the 1819 Founding of Singapore
Jason Heng