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C. M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was published in 1977. Revised fully twice,...

translated by Roger Nelson A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after ...

Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who trav...

What happens when a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago, Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed alo...

Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that unde...

"As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating...

Does home have to be a country or a city? ... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate...We seemed always to have been home. Wang Gung...

Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by its hero, Kwang Meng, as he naviga...

translated by John H. McGlynn In August 1883 massive volcanic eruptions destroyed two-thirds of the island of Krakatau, in the Sunda Strait between...

A schoolboy time travels in a strange old shop house. A child with Down's Syndrome is run over chasing a balloon seller. An older sister tightly sl...

Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has more than 560,000 specimens in its c...

In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about liberalization and its association w...

Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. T...

The overland Silk Road linking China with West Asia and Europe is a famous and fabled trade route. The sea route that was its alternative was argua...

International politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism...

Southeast Asian Lives presents life stories of ordinary people in Southeast Asia, one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing regions in the world...

Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony...

Surabaya, 1945 - 2010 presents the recent history of one of Indonesia's great port cities as viewed from a crowded low-income neighbourhood (kampun...

Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with imp...

In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian faction. Their coup was overturned wi...

Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980), and man snake apple & other...

In the early twentieth century, social banditry was endemic in the countryside near the border between the northern Malaysian state of Kedah and Si...

The Roots of Resilience examines politics from the ground up in Singapore and Malaysia—two regimes that blend politically liberal and authoritarian...

For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part...

The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states...