The Scripting of a National History
Description About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...
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View full detailsDescription “Baba”, “Nonya”, “Peranakan” and “Straits Chinese” are terms that refer to the descendants of Chinese traders who settled in Southe...
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View full detailsDescription The famous author Rudyyard Kipling once wrote, " East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."Yet they have met i...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors Aan Thai is a basic Thai reading textbook designed to accompany the author's Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook. I...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Singapore has been known as the Lion City since the late 13th century when it was discovered by Sumatran Prince Sa...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Indian Etiquette cover key aspects of the rich culture, from gift-giving, presenting a garland, eating with finger...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the inhabit...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors This biography documents K. Kesavapany’s journey from the Malayan estates in the late 1930s to his move to Sing...
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View full detailsPraise About the Authors “We live in paradoxical times. Traditionally, the West has led the world in theory and practice. Yet, recent developm...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Editors Inequality is a defining global issue of our times. Southeast Asia stands out in some ways; the 2010s have...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Christina’s family has a rich tradition in singing and as a young girl she was inspired to take up lessons, and to...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author The author of Wild Women Do on crimes committed by females in Singapore returns with a new collection on local cri...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...
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View full detailsDescription Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic stri...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors Since the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) was first established in 1981, it has played a valuable role i...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Lee Kuan Yew: The Critical Years (1971-78) is a facsimile edition of Alex Josey's second masterful account of Sing...
View full detailsDescription About the Author David Marshall was part of the nationalist political struggle after WWII, the first elected chief minister during ...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors The first comprehensive historical anthology of English-language writing from Singapore, this volume covers more ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This essential text fills a glaring gap in the social science of South-East Asia with its comprehensive and integr...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author The British military failure against the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942 is a well-documented and cl...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor The rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia and the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers in the region...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese in...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated is...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Guns of February shows the Fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eyes of Japa...
View full detailsDescription If you think that most Peranakans live to eat, you may be correct. After all, good Peranakan cuisine isn't a matter of tossing just...
View full detailsDescription You are probably familiar with the spicy Peranakan cusine or even have friends who are graet cooking at it. But there is definitrly...
View full detailsDescription With 5,000 years of history, India is a culture united by diversity. Her literary traditions reflect her glory and heritage. Today,...
View full detailsDescription Chinese Auspicious Culture we examine how Chinese folk customs have evolved over the centuries to become a natural science that com...
View full detailsDescription Chinese Eminent Peoples, we look at the lives of more than 100 of the greatest and most famous achievers in all of Chinese history....
View full detailsDescription Constructing Singapore studies Singaporean nation-building by focusing on two processes: elite formation and elite selection. It gi...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Zubir Said is best known as the composer of Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore, Semoga Bahagia, t...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Out of Stock IndefinitelyMalay Etiquette teaches everything from performing a salam, washing before meals. appropr...
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View full detailsDescription About the Editors Changing Landscapes of Singapore illuminates both the social and the physical terrains of modern Singapore. Geogr...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This tiny, humid island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula was once a forest-covered Garden of Eden. The majority o...
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