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Singapore’s Social & Business History Through Paper Ephemera in the Koh Seow Chuan Collection
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Collection Highlights
18 December 2017
The documents in the Koh Seow Chuan Collection at the National Library Singapore reveal aspects of social and business history in early Singapore society.
Edited by Koh Keng We
Singapore: National Library Board, 2017.
About the Book
This publication features research essays on the early commercial operations of the Eu Yan Sang enterprise, the business practices of the Chettiars and the role of remittance letters in maintain family ties for overseas Chinese. Using primary resources in the National Library, Singapore’s Koh Seow Chuan collection, writers Koh Keng We, Kannan Kesavan and Dong Huiying from Nanyang Technological University show us how seemingly insignificant materials can be used to examine aspects of early Singapore society from the view of the common person.