Chinese Street Opera in Singapore... --... Tong Soon Lee... 218 pages including conclusion, notes, glossary, bibliograpy and index... Weight: 0.6 kg. *On request this book will be sent post free by surface mail to any part of the world when it is part of an order weighing at least 2...
Krishen Jit: An Uncommon Position... Krishen Jit , an influential figure in the arts in South East Asia, introduces us to a collection of his essays and articles from the early 1970s until 2003. Topics include an analysis of contemporary theatre, multiculturalism, symbolic vision and much else. 248 pages with some...
Living Legacy:... Singapore's Architectural Heritage Renewed... by... Robert Powell... This book takes stock of a decade of conservation efforts spured by the Singapore Government's interest in conservation which began in the 1980s. Ably assisted by evocative photography, Powell details a broad sweep of good and bad efforts at preservation, excluding...
Sacred Structures:... Artistic Renditions of Hindu Temples in Malaysia and Singapore... by... Krishna Gopal Rampal... New. This evocative work is the result of the several years of the author's inspired idea to gather together some of Malaysia and Singapore's leading artists to paint 101 temples, great and small, in both...
Southeast Asian Art today... Edited by... Joyce Van Fenema... The book is a collection of articles, illustrated with colour photographs, of the principal artists at the time of publicationin Malaysia by the editor,in Indonesia by Jim Supangkat,in The Philippines by Alice Guillermo and Cid Reyesin Singapore by Susie...
Wong Ah Fook:... Immigrant, Builder and Entrepreneur... by... P.Lim Pui Huen... Through this biography of her great-grandfather, the author, a professional historian, charts Wong's transformation from a carpenter into a master developer when Singapore began to grow as the capital of the Straits Settlements and the spur for...
A Daughter Remembers-... Li Lien Fung... The author was born in China when her father had already set off to the USA to seek his fortune leaving his wife and family behind. He was successful and apparently re-married leaving the family in China to fend for themselves. The author...
Adventures of a Mad Chinaman... by... Dick Lee... New. One of Singapore's best known pop stars, who's been entertaining his fans since the 1970s, gives us a down to earth and witty look at his varied life. He was one of the first pioneers to bring Asian elements into pop...
Indiscreet Memories:... 1901 Singapore through the eyes of a colonial Englishman... by... Edwin Brown... New. As the author says in his foreword, this book contains "no dry as dust...statistics and figures, but rather a gathering together of ...events, grave and gay" that he or his friends experienced. This reprint...
Relatively Speaking... - -... Joan Hon... In this 270-page book the daughter of a former Finance Minister of Singapore, Hon Sui Sen, gives an insight into the life of a very private man. Although the book's unlikely to be critical, nevertheless it is a useful contribution to the history of Singapore...
Rice Wine and Dancing Girls:... The real life drama of a roving cinema manager in 50s Malaysia and Singapore... -... Wong Seng Chow... New. This biography relates the exciting life of Wong Kee Hung, an itinerant cinema manager in 50s and 60s Malaya and Sinagpore. It's a fast paced tale of...
Sinagpore Rebel:... Searching for Annabel Chong... -... Gerrie Lim... New. "In January 1995 in Los Angeles...a Singaporean pornstar named Annabel Chong...was filmed having sex with a...line of men, servicing them 251 times over a ten-hour period to set a new world record," reads the publisher's blurb...
Syonan - My Story... by... Mamoru Shinozaki... New. The author's unusual story concerns his time in Syonan meaning 'the light of the South,' the Japanese name for Singapore, where he was based from late 1938 until the Japanese surrender in 1945. He arrived as a journalist, was jailed by the...
Tan Kah-Kee:... The Making of an Overseas Chinese Legend... by... CF Yong... In this first English and most extensive biography of the man dubbed 'the Henry Ford of Malaya', Yong gives us a rounded picture of the man's businees, political and family life. Tan's rags-to-riches story was...
Tun Dato Sir Cheng Lock Tan... by... Alice Scott-Ross... Tun Dato Sir Cheng Lock Tan's daughter, Alice Scott-Ross, provides the reader with a family perspective on her well known father. Despite the fact that the Lock is cast as a hero, the book contains much useful background information...
Wong Ah Fook:... Immigrant, Builder and Entrepreneur... by... P.Lim Pui Huen... Through this biography of her great-grandfather, the author, a professional historian, charts Wong's transformation from a carpenter into a master developer when Singapore began to grow as the capital of the Straits Settlements and the spur for...
Absent History:... The Untold Story of Special Branch Operations in Singapore 1915-1942... -... Ban Kah Choon... In probably the first comprehensive review of intelligence operations in the former Straits Settlements, the author has produced a very readable history of this exciting period. The Special Branch was formed when it was...
Chinese Family and Marriage... in... Singapore... by... Maurice Freedman... (This volume is the Colonial office Pre-Publication Edition)... This fascinating study by an anthropologist who was commissioned by the British Government gives the reader a snapshot of Singapore life based on research carried out for almost two years between 1949...
Chinese Family and Marriage... in... Singapore... by... Maurice Freedman... This fascinating study by an anthropologist who was commissioned by the British Government gives the reader a snapshot of Singapore life based on research carried out for almost two years between 1949 and 1950. The main aim of the work is...
Early Penang... &... The Rise of Singapore 1805-1832... Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume XIII, Part 2 - March 1950... Edited by... CD Cowan... This collection of transcriptions of the original manuscript documents was originally assembled by Cowan to provide students at the University of...
Living Legacy:... Singapore's Architectural Heritage Renewed... by... Robert Powell... This book takes stock of a decade of conservation efforts spured by the Singapore Government's interest in conservation which began in the 1980s. Ably assisted by evocative photography, Powell details a broad sweep of good and bad efforts at preservation, excluding...
Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation... Edited by... Paul Kartoska... It's difficult to have a complete picture of what happened during the Japanese occupation of Malaya and Singapore because the Japanese destroyed most of their administrative records at the time of surrender. However historians have slowly been able to...
Paper Currency... of... Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (1849-1970)... by... William Shaw and Mohd. Kassim Haji Ali... Each currency of these three countries is described in detail with information about size, measurements and colour. There is an extensive range of black and white plates. This book has 123 pages in...
Problems of the Malayan Economy... Edited by... Lim Tay Boh... The booklet consists of transcripts of a series of talks given on Radio Malaya to inroduce listeners to the workings of the country's economy and to encourage further study. Contibutors, including Ungku Abdul Aziz, TH Silcock, Charles Gamba, the editor...
Rogue Raider:... The Tale of Captain Lauterbach and the Singapore Mutiny... --... Nigel Barley... This is a fictionalised account of the Captain Julius Lauterbach who did actually exist and was attached to the German ship Emden which caused havoc to Allied shipping in the Far and Middle East at the outset...
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