Culture & Heritage

Description About the Author and Illustrator Nasi: When Rice Grains Cry tells the stories of 12 quintessentially Malay rice dishes, eaten and e...

Description Photographer Steve Golden set off to find Singapore’s remaining heritage shops—family run businesses that are multi-generational an...

Description A curry puff stall that dates back to the 1950s; homemade desserts sold to make ends meet; immigrants cooking with firewood; itiner...

Description Best Cover Design Finalist for the 2023 Singapore Book Awards In This Together: Singapore’s Covid-19 Story is a dramatic insider ac...

Description About the Authors Until recently, Bhutan has been relatively unknown. In many minds, it is a mystical secluded place. Nonetheless...

Description About the Illustrators Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book In th...

Home to more city dwellers than any other region, and the locus of many of the world's most populous metropolitan areas, Asia is moving to centre s...

Description Praise About the Author Tough times don’t last, but tough people do! The recipe for resilience lies in the practice and joy of be...

Description The year 2019 marks Singapore's Bicentennial milestone since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore in 1819. It was in an...

Description About the Author Baba Malay for Everyone – is a language guide for Baba Malay - the Peranakan language. This guide is a complete ...

Description Contents Singapore and India established diplomatic relations in August 1965. However, their ties date as far back as the 10th cent...

Description Throughout the history of mankind, the rise of societies, whether civilizations, nations, or communities, has been a story of human...

Description The hawker centre is an integral part of Singapore's urban landscape. As they are now easily found all around the island, many may ...

Description Praise Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2018, Creative Non-Fiction 南来文化人与这个南洋小岛，有过一段怎样的生命交集因缘？ 在新加坡这个现代都会，还有哪些几为人们遗忘的文化历史...

Description “儿童”是建构历史和文化的重要概念及方法。 本论文集以战后新马地区出版和发行的儿童期刊以及教科书等为主要研究对象，结合口述采访、本地书局历史和原始档案资料，在将“南洋儿童”概念历史化的同时，重点分析其发展变化与本地区新兴的反殖民话语、民族国家的兴起、新马与香港之...

Description This book details the findings of a large-scale survey on the values and lifestyles of 1500 Singapore residents in 2001. Semi-struc...

Description About the Author This essential text fills a glaring gap in the social science of South-East Asia with its comprehensive and integr...

Description 本书是柯思仁博士在《联合早报》副刊的专栏文章，作为文化、剧场和表演的研究学者，他期许以剧场和现实互为隐喻的方式，书写剧场给予的启示，现实产生的冲击，并以写散文的精力来经营。这三十二篇散文是作者在三十二幕特定空间与时间框架里当下的启发和感受。 原本在黑漆漆的观众席...

Description About the Author How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Description About the Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description Few people have watched the development of today's Singapore as closely as President S.R. Nathan, who celebrated his 90th birthday ...

Description Praise About the Author The globalisation of psychiatry has helped shape the way suffering and recovery is experienced in Aceh, Ind...

Description About the Author Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...

Description About the Author Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ance...

Description Good biosecurity policy decisions, particularly in relation to plant industry protection, are of ever increasing importance. Growth...

Description About the Author The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" syste...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

Description Praise About the Author Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors...

Description Praise About the Author A comprehensive collection of 477 drawings—including plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, and fish—ac...

Description About the Editors Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse. During the first few decades of nation building, policies wer...

Description About the Author Malay Weddings Don't Cost $50 is a collection of 42 articles which serves as a guide to Malay culture and heritage...

Description The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's forma...

Description About the Author Singapore has been known as the Lion City since the late 13th century when it was discovered by Sumatran Prince Sa...

Description About the Author In early 1905, a group of Javanese led by Alias bin Ali, started a settlement on a hillside in Singapore, not far ...

Description This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asian...

Description Praise About the Author Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand explores the intersections of memory, place, power and touri...

Description Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her gran...

Description About the Author Gedung Kuning or the Yellow Mansion was home to the family of Haji Yusoff 'Tali Pinggang' from 1912 to 1999. It wa...

Description 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...

Description You are probably familiar with the spicy Peranakan cusine or even have friends who are graet cooking at it. But there is definitrly...

Description Have you ever wondered what life was like in a malay Kampong in the old days? Or why practically all your malay friends are Muslims...

Description With 5,000 years of history, India is a culture united by diversity. Her literary traditions reflect her glory and heritage. Today,...

Description 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...

Description Have you ever wonder about the significance of the various vibriant festivls celebrated by the Chinese people every year, or why th...

Description Chinese Science & Technology, we look at the accumlated knowledge of China still existing today in the form of inventions in d...

Description Chinese Literature, you will meet great minds among the Chinese literates. Since reading is a form of pleasure that has been enjoye...