new directions in singapore studies
Posted in 7 men in white on Aug 7th, 2010
Philip Holden
I thought I’d approach Men in White and the question of gender from two perspectives, both of which take advantage of my failings as a historian. In the first, I want to approach it as a general reader—as someone who came to Singapore in 1994 and so, like many younger Singaporeans, has no memory [...]
Posted in 6 the arts I on Mar 19th, 2010
Lee Tzu Pheng
wolfnotes, a firstfruits exhibition
We owe a considerable debt to Enoch for his trust and vision, his belief in the art of literature, which is what we are celebrating in this exhibition, wolfnotes. I see in this exhibition a way of affirming that literature’s roots are in the other arts even as its fruits [...]
Posted in 2 archives & memory II on Feb 26th, 2008
Robert Yeo
Wang: I might start at the beginning. I’m not one of those schoolboy poets who wrote and published while still at school. When we arrived the very first month of the foundation of the University of Malaya in October 1949. it was a very exciting time for all of us. There was a sense [...]
Posted in 2 archives & memory on Jan 10th, 2008
Philip Holden
Wang Gungwu is best known as a historian of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and for a stellar academic career commencing at the University of Malaya in Singapore and culminating in periods as Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, and Director of the East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore. Like [...]
Posted in 2 archives & memory on Jan 10th, 2008
Wang Gungwu
The Singapore Heritage Society presented a public talk by Professor Wang Gungwu, then Director of the East Asia Institute, on 10 April 2006 at the National Library, entitled “Learning Me Your Language”. Professor Wang discussed the politics of decolonization and English language writing in Singapore/Malaya in the early 1950s, a period when he [...]
Posted in 2 archives & memory on Jan 10th, 2008
Wang Gungwu
From The Malayan Undergrad, Vol 9 No 5 July 1958
When I was a schoolboy a little more than ten years ago, no one talked of such a thing as Malayan poetry. It was not even known if there was any poetry written by people who lived in Malaya.
Posted in 2 archives & memory on Jan 10th, 2008
Sai Siew Min, with Lim Cheng Tju
CC Chin: I have my ways. After all, history is not something that can be monopolized by a few individuals. Hundreds of thousands of people were involved in this movement. If I include supporters and sympathizers, there could be a million people involved over such a long time period. [...]
