Did you know that Singapore was once called the “Queen of Far Eastern Seas”, or that Fort Canning was called “the Forbidden Hill”? How did colonial Britain’s impact on the…
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Borneo and the Indian Archipelago: with drawings of costume and scenery is a narrative of the proceedings of Her Majesty’s vessel, H.M.S. Samarang, during her last surveying cruise. The author,…
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Kenneth Paul Tan’s Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew is a thought-provoking analysis of the political and social dynamics of Singapore’s urban development since the passing…
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The Malayan Medical Journal is a quarterly scientific record that seeks to journal and archive observations about the occurrence of diseases in Singapore and Malaysia and its changing patterns. According…
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Al-Syed Sheikh bin Ahmad al-Hadi (1867 – 1934) made significant contributions to modern Malay nationalism. Together with other Malay-Arabs, he started the Islamic reform journal Al-Imam (1906-08) which was inspired…
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The Global Chinese World: Ethnicity, Personalities, and Politics (海外华人世界：族群，人物与政治) explores the ethnic identity of overseas Chinese, contributions made by prominent overseas Chinese personalities and how events in overseas Chinese societies…
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This book tells the story of Singapore – how an island and a people with limited resources turned vulnerability into strength, with human ingenuity and good engineering — Lee Hsien…
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Nanyang is the Chinese term for the region of South-East Asia during the period of massive Chinese emigration starting in the 1640s. The Story of Nanyang (南洋故事) is a Chinese…
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Hello from NUS Libraries, This blog article is a follow-up to the previous one which provides an overview of Early Voyages and Travels in Southeast Asia, a new exhibition on…
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The author, Anne Haila used Singapore as a case study to build up an original theory of urban land. Although Singapore is the focus, the book is not only a…
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