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Author | : Jason Heng |
Publisher | : Jason Heng |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2021-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
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Everyone knows Singapore as the Lion City and the story behind of a Palembang prince, Sang Nila Utama, sighting a lion on this island that was first published 200 years ago in John Leyden's translation of the Malay classic Sejarah Melayu. But few people have actually read the Sejarah Melayu to realise the fairytale-like claims of Singapore's supposed medieval founder as a descendant of Alexander the Great, and the son of an Indian king who tried to conquer China and a princess from underwater; or that the creature he purportedly saw was not described as a lion, but a chimera with a red body, black head, white breast, and was a little larger than a he-goat. And barely anyone remembers the days when respectable residents of Singapore scoffed at suggestions that Singapore's name has anything to do with the Felis Leo. Decoding Sejarah Melayu daringly challenges the assumption that the Sejarah Melayu records Singapore's pre-modern past, which has been held since Sir Stamford Raffles arrived in 1819 and declared himself at the "ancient Capital of the Malay kings". It seeks to grasp what is the Sejarah Melayu and how its accounts of Singapore as Temasek and Singapura were written, critically re-examines key historical text such as the Malay epic Hikayat Hang Tuah, Tomé Pires' Suma Oriental and 14th century Chinese travelogue Daoyi Zhilue, and makes an expansive study into other sources in Malay, Javanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Siamese, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and the English language to discover clues to ancient Singapore's long hidden past. This is a book that will profoundly change understandings of Singapore's history and identity.
Author | : Kwa Chong Guan |
Publisher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2021-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9814951420 |
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The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Author | : Chong Guan Kwa |
Publisher | : National University of Singapore Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Singapore |
ISBN | : 9789814722742 |
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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 after 1819. What, then, accounts for the many centuries when it seemed not to thrive, and was seen in the words of John Crawfurd as "only the occasional resort of pirates"? This seeming paradox sits uneasily at the heart of Singapore historiography, and over time historians have suggested a variety of ways to resolve it. This volume collects studies about Singapore before 1800, bringing together different efforts across the 20th century at reconstructing Singapore's "missing years". Some authors have found additional details by scouring ancient and early modern texts for references to Singapore, and by reading well-known classics such as the Sejarah Melayu against the grain. Others have built narratives that bridge pre- and post-1800 perspectives by positioning Singapore within long-term global history. These efforts have yielded a much richer understanding of Singapore's changing fortunes before 1800. The articles collected in this volume represent milestones in this effort. Many are hard to locate, and two pieces are translated from Dutch to English for the first time. The collection is presented here with an introduction from historian Kwa Chong Guan. Book jacket.
Author | : Ibrahim Ismail |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Printing |
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Download The Printing of Munshi Abdullah's Edition of the Sejarah Melayu in Singapore Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John N. Miksic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Download Early Singapore, 1300s-1819 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Hussein Alatas (Syed) |
Publisher | : Centre for Research |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Malays (Asian people) |
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Download Malays/Muslims and the History of Singapore Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Singapore |
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Download The History of Singapore Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ernest Chin Tiong Chew |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
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This is the first of a series of five volumes on the ASEAN countries being published by Oxford University Press in collaboration with the Southeast Asian Studies Program. In 1819 Thomas Stamford Raffles established an outpost of British India on a sparsely populated island at the southern end of the Straits of Malacca. This book tells how that settlement became a Crown Colony that was for over 100 years one of the most prosperous ports not just of British Malaya, but in the entire British Empire. This multi-faceted historical process is discussed by eighteen Singapore scholars. Starting with a short survey of the pre-modern history of Singapore, their work provides both a chronological account of events and specialized studies including community, the family, education, mass media, housing, health care, welfare, population growth, and national identity.
Author | : N. J. Ryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Malaya |
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Download A History of Malaysia and Singapore Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Singapore |
ISBN | : 9789810863579 |
Download The Makers & Keepers of Singapore History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle