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Chapters on Asia: Selected Papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2019)

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31 March 2020

Chapters on Asia features selected papers written by scholars who have been awarded the National Library’s Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship. This 2019 edition consists of the following papers.

Chapters on Asia: Selected Papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2019)

Singapore: National Library Board, 2020.

“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
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
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
A Prelude to an Invasion? The Japanese Army’s Covert Operation in Singapore and the Riau islands in the Early 20th Century
Yosuke Watanabe