These materials highlight how community leaders representing different ethnic groups not only spoke out on public issues, but also sought to represent a wider section of community by being inclusive in their agendas.
In conjunction with World Environment Day, ISEAS Library presents a selection of books on environment and climate change, covering its governance, technology, and economic and social aspects.
For a decade beginning 1901, an ambitious venture was undertaken by a South African publishing venture with headquarters in Durban and a representative office in London, Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Co. Ltd. This was the Twentieth Century Impressions series.
Tan Cheng Lock, rubber estate and landed proprietor, Chairman of Directors and Managing Director of Malaka Pinda Rubber Estates, Ltd., […] So begins the profile, written in 1947, of one of Malaya’s best-known leaders of the Chinese community.
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Celebrate International Women’s Day with a selection of books by and about women in Southeast Asia and beyond.
Delve into images of Southeast Asia as seen by Frederic Mason and Gregory Forth.
Some authors could be critical of what they perceived as the erosion of the exotic and medieval East by the modern West.
Female travelogues tapped into the corpus of Southeast Asia travel writings and used descriptions and anecdotes built up by other previous travellers.
The ISEAS Library presents a selection of books written, edited and compiled by external speakers at ISEAS seminars in the past year.