Singapore | Asian History Books

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy:Building a Global Policy School in Asia

March 25, 2015

In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of Singapore, is a remarkable story that deserves to be told. The five co-authors, all of whom were […]
The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century

March 25, 2015

The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, linking Europe, the Mediterranean, eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent with key centres of trade in Thailand, Indochina, insular Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. The first half of the 17th century brought heightened political, commercial […]
Phoenix Rising: Narratives in Nyonya Beadwork from the Straits Settlements

March 25, 2015

Intricate, meticulously crafted and visually distinctive. Nyonya beadwork occupies a significant role in the cultural imaginary of the Peranakan Chinese, the acculturated descendants of Chinese migrants to the Malay peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago. Drawing on private and public collections in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Europe, and the United States, this book offers a rigorous art-historical […]
Pedra Branca: The Road to the World Court

March 25, 2015

This book is about the territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over Pedra Branca, a small but strategically located island near the entrance to the Straits of Malacca. It describes how the two countries managed the dispute over three decades until final resolution by the International Court of Justice in May 2008. The two authors, […]
Biography of the Early Malay Doctors 1900-1957 Malaya and Singapore

March 25, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$19.33 1477159940
Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Sale Price:$60.00 9888028146
Singapore at Random: Facts, figure, quotes and anecdotes on Singapore (At Random Series)

March 25, 2015

Singapore at Random, an illustrated collection of Singapore trivia, contains anecdotes, statistics, quotations, diagrams, facts, recipes, advice, folklore and other unusual and often useful tidbits. Compiled and researched by a dedicated team of researchers and editors at Editions Didier Millet, and having unearthed an abundance of Singaporean trivia, the team has discerningly selected thousands of […]
Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent

March 25, 2015

The perils of dissent in Singapore are at the heart of this poignant story of the country’s most prominent opposition politician, J. B. Jeyaretnam. Following the career of this ambitious lawyer, prosecutor, and judge, the book traces his subsequent disenchantment with the system, his stunning political breakthrough at Anson in l981, and the devastating consequences […]
YOU’LL DIE IN SINGAPORE

March 25, 2015

Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, Charles McCormac, a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he’d die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began the two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore to Australia. Sale Price:$12.49 1844155404
War, Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore

March 25, 2015

Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya’s jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation […]

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