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.
Join us and help research and document the various collections in the Library!
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.
Private papers, photographs and more – a new way to access the Library’s digitised collections!
Three classic novels that reflect the unyielding spirit of Indonesian history.
This list covers a good range from ghosts to fashion to language to politics. Drop by the Library to pick up one (or more)!