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		<title>Routes not Roots</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/09/routes-not-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[10 so what]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Holden Review of Robert Yeo, Routes: A Singaporean Memoir, 1940-75, Singapore: Ethos Book, 2011, 384 pages. Robert Yeo’s Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-1975 doesn’t at first seem like a memoir at all. The book consists of photographs, prose vignettes, fully transcribed letters, documents such as school reports, and long quotations from sources as diverse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seventies: Transition from Cultural Desert to Global City</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/the-seventies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[9 the arts II]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Yeo This is a personal essay to remember and chart my experience as a writer in the context of Singapore’s development, during the decade 1970-79, from cultural desert to global city. I will try to make connexions and generalizations which will, I hope, not seem too sweeping. “Only connect,” wrote E.M. Forster, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming Literature for Singapore</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/reclaiming-literature-for-singapore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvin Pang Some months ago I was given the opportunity to curate an anthology of contemporary writing from Singapore. The result was a selection from thirty-nine living Singaporean writers spanning multiple genres working in the four major literary languages (Chinese, English, Malay, Tamil) in use today.[1] The anthology was published in the US, in English; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eulogy</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/eulogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[9 the arts II]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tribute by Chng Seok Tin Translated by Karen Goh and Teng Siao See First published in 方修印象记 (Impressions of Fang Xiu), 2005 I was acquainted with Mr Fang Xiu. He was an unassuming but knowledgeable and amiable elder. Those who were not familiar with him could have easily dismissed him as an idling senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2011/06/learning-to-adapt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gwee Li Sui There is a case to be made for a literary impression that adaptation is the most difficult sub-genre in the field of comics. Any attempt to give Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case: A Graphic Novel its proper critical evaluation does well to keep this point in mind. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From People’s Action Party to Men in White</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2010/08/frompap-to-miw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[7 men in white]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For wolfnotes</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2010/03/for-wolfnotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s roots are in the other arts even as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with Wang Gungwu (in the mid 1980s)</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2008/02/interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2 archives & memory II]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to “Learning Me Your Language”</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2008/01/introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Me Your Language</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2008/01/learningme/</link>
		<comments>http://s-pores.com/2008/01/learningme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s/pores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trial and Error in Malayan Poetry</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2008/01/malayanpoetry/</link>
		<comments>http://s-pores.com/2008/01/malayanpoetry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s/pores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. For myself, poetry was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archive Fever … in Singapore: An Interview with CC Chin</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2008/01/ccchin/</link>
		<comments>http://s-pores.com/2008/01/ccchin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s/pores</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2 archives & memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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