new directions in singapore studies
Posted in 5 detention on Oct 21st, 2009
Michael Fernandez and Tan Jing Quee at the ‘Detention-Writing-Healing’ Forum Transcribed by Seet Wen Hao and Ong Pei Chey, edited by Loh Kah Seng On 26 February 2006, an idea mooted by history teacher Lim Cheng Tju to his friends in the arts scene came to fruition: to have former political detainees break the silence [...]
Posted in 5 detention on Oct 21st, 2009
Kevin Blackburn This article was originally published in the Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 29, 2007. On a Saturday afternoon, 26 February 2006, over 200, mostly young people, crowded into the Recital Studio of Singapore’s Esplanade Arts Centre to listen to ex-political detainees from the 1960s and 1970s give their side of Singapore’s [...]
Posted in 2 archives & memory II on Feb 26th, 2008
Loh Kah Seng National Archives of Singapore. Memories & Reflections: The Singapore Experience: Documenting a Nation’s History Through Oral History. 2nd edition. Singapore: Oral History Centre, 2007. vii, 194 pp. The collection of social memories, in a forward-looking nation-state where the vast majority of households are nuclear families without grandparents living with them, is particularly [...]
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 [...]
Posted in 2 archives & memory on Jan 10th, 2008
Loh Kah Seng In the interviews I did in 2005 at the Singapore Leprosy Relief Association (Silra) Home with individuals who formerly suffered from leprosy is a statement which keeps returning to me, reminding me of the complex relationship between history and memory. The words came from two of the Home’s residents, good friends Lim [...]
