Culture & Heritage

The Peranakan Association Singapore Being Baba presents selected articles on Peranakan culture through the eyes of contributors to the The Perana...

The Straits Chinese or Peranakan community is perhaps one of the oldest overseas Chinese communities in history, having established itself in the M...

More than two hundred years after Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British factory on the island of Singapore, he continues to be a towering f...

Parting Glances examines a country undergoing profound development by turning a camera lens on six communities in Singapore that are at the precipi...

Photobook of Singapore Shophouses (Chinatown) ISBN: 9789811436406Format: HardbackPages: 272Published: 2019

The hajj calls Muslims to journey to Mecca from wherever they are across the world. Of the far-flung communities one of the largest is that of the ...

“Dancing was fun; it didn't seem like a job but a party every day.” “They practised dancing seriously; it was their life!” “It is an ugly professio...

Seeks to provide a general framework, giving due weight to the origins, early development and each of the various periods of Singapore's history. I...

The Sound of Memories: Recordings from the Oral History Centre, Singapore features the happy, funny, poignant and bittersweet — but always heartwar...

Connections: History and Architecture, City Hall and Supreme Court takes a look at two of Singapore's most prominent National Monuments. The histor...

Wang Gungwu This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at ...

Velayutham Selvaraj Investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity. This book focuses on the global/na...

Dhoraisingam Samuel Offers a glimpse into an almost unknown but distinct community in Singapore and Malaysia: the Peranakan Indians. Bringing tog...

This book is one of the few books written in English on Chaozhou culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and English sources incl...

Photobook of Singapore Shophouses ISBN: 9789811189951Format: HardbackPages: 272Published: 2018

For years, the study of how culture operates in colonial contexts was dominated by the ideas of transmission and influence. Yet the more we learn, ...

Celebrating a "golden age" of travel, this new book retraces the steps of a Grand Tour of South East Asia from the turn of the 20th century to the ...

Mileage Communications is proud to present On a Little Hill in Chinatown, a 206-page tome documenting the lives of its early occupants (immigrants,...

Chapteh, congkak, hopscotch and five stones..Do these names ring a bell? This book takes you back in time to the 1950s and 1960s for some old schoo...

Here, in beautiful Singapore, we live in harmony. Regardless of our different races, religions and customs, we are able to grow and prosper in peac...

This accessibly written encyclopedia, compiled by two experienced educationists, gives summary information and guidance for further reading on a wi...