Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900786
Por Heong Hong
Abstract:Images of leprosy produced in British Malaya offer a way to explore connections between medical photography and colonial ideology. Using postcolonial history of medicine and critical visual studies, this article looks at the role of visual images in the formulation of colonial policy on leprosy. Viewing photos of leprosy against the background of colonialism, the politics of segregation, and the global migration of Chinese and Tamil labourers, I argue that medical photos of leprosy during British Malaya were not only objects of clinical significance but also a site of colonial representation of racial Others and pathogenic migrant bodies. As a critical engagement with historical photos, this article re-reads images of leprosy along and against the grain of colonial narratives to shed new light on colonial benevolence.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900794
Seng Guo-Quan
{"title":"The Pioneer Merchants of Singapore: Johnston, Boustead, Guthrie and Others by R. E. Hale (review)","authors":"Seng Guo-Quan","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"166 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46494798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900791
Yolande Crowe
{"title":"Belitung, the afterlives of a shipwreck by Natali Pearson (review)","authors":"Yolande Crowe","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900791","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"161 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43955077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900785
Bonny Tan
Abstract:Kung Tian Cheng (孔天增) (1879–1915), who was born in Malacca and educated at the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore, began his career at the age of 16 as a junior clerk at Singapore’s Raffles Library, where he helped assemble a comprehensive catalogue of the library’s entire English-language collection. At the time of his death just 20 years later, he was living in Beijing, where he had served as a secretary and translator for Yuan Shikai, the first president of the Chinese Republic, and as Chief Librarian for the Presidential Library. The Confucian Revival movement in Malaya in the late nineteenth century deeply affected him, and reformist ideas influenced his writings and led him on a journey through the Straits Settlements, India, and ultimately to China.
{"title":"Kung Tian Cheng: From Confucian Scholar in Singapore to Reformer in the Chinese Republic","authors":"Bonny Tan","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900785","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Kung Tian Cheng (孔天增) (1879–1915), who was born in Malacca and educated at the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore, began his career at the age of 16 as a junior clerk at Singapore’s Raffles Library, where he helped assemble a comprehensive catalogue of the library’s entire English-language collection. At the time of his death just 20 years later, he was living in Beijing, where he had served as a secretary and translator for Yuan Shikai, the first president of the Chinese Republic, and as Chief Librarian for the Presidential Library. The Confucian Revival movement in Malaya in the late nineteenth century deeply affected him, and reformist ideas influenced his writings and led him on a journey through the Straits Settlements, India, and ultimately to China.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"81 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48027068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900796
Kelvin E. Y. Low
{"title":"The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory by Kevin Blackburn (review)","authors":"Kelvin E. Y. Low","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900796","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"169 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43163896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900790
Lawrence N. Ross
{"title":"The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty by Raja Iskandar bin Raja Halid (review)","authors":"Lawrence N. Ross","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900790","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"159 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48760287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900789
Kwa Kwa Chong Guan
{"title":"Carl A. Gibson-Hill: Photography, History, Boats, and Birds in Late-Colonial Malaya and Singapore by Brendan Luyt (review)","authors":"Kwa Kwa Chong Guan","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"155 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47633228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900795
A. Rahman
{"title":"The Straits Philosophical Society and Colonial Elites in Malaya: Selected Paper on Race, Identity, and Social Order ed. by Lim Teck Ghee and Charles Brophy (review)","authors":"A. Rahman","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900795","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"168 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48811183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900787
J. Chan
Abstract:Three novelists have written major works on the Malayan Emergency: Jin Zhimang (The People’s Writer Jin Zhimang’s Selected Anti-British War Novels 人民文學家金枝芒 抗英 戰爭小說選, Anthony Burgess (Time for a Tiger and The Enemy in the Blanket), and Han Suyin (And the Rain My Drink). This article examines how historical fiction engaged with the Emergency. Jin displayed a commitment to a socialist realism, Burgess to a comic mode, while Han assumed a blend of ethnographic detail and metafiction to render the period. All three writers assumed a variety of strategies to capture the political intensity of the period and the multi-ethnicity and multilingualism of Malaya. These works, each written during the Emergency itself, contribute to a multiplicity of ways of engaging with the period from various linguistic vantage points, resisting hegemonic pronouncements surrounding its historical legacy.
{"title":"Recording the Emergency: On the Historical Fiction of Jin Zhimang, Anthony Burgess, and Han Suyin","authors":"J. Chan","doi":"10.1353/ras.2023.a900787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900787","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Three novelists have written major works on the Malayan Emergency: Jin Zhimang (The People’s Writer Jin Zhimang’s Selected Anti-British War Novels 人民文學家金枝芒 抗英 戰爭小說選, Anthony Burgess (Time for a Tiger and The Enemy in the Blanket), and Han Suyin (And the Rain My Drink). This article examines how historical fiction engaged with the Emergency. Jin displayed a commitment to a socialist realism, Burgess to a comic mode, while Han assumed a blend of ethnographic detail and metafiction to render the period. All three writers assumed a variety of strategies to capture the political intensity of the period and the multi-ethnicity and multilingualism of Malaya. These works, each written during the Emergency itself, contribute to a multiplicity of ways of engaging with the period from various linguistic vantage points, resisting hegemonic pronouncements surrounding its historical legacy.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"121 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47228840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ras.2023.a900784
F. Smith
Abstract:James Carnegy was an influential merchant and public figure in early 19th century Penang. His life and career have been largely overlooked, and much new information is presented here. The illegitimate son of a minor Scottish landowner, Carnegy had a short career in Britain’s Royal Navy, and then in the 1780s became a successful private trader in India. He moved to Penang around 1802 as a trader and shipowner. This article traces voyages of his vessels, as well as his extensive financial dealings and his interactions with the British East India Company (EIC) authorities in Penang. Carnegy’s success grew out of his earlier trading activities, professional contacts with other private traders, and positive interactions with EIC officials and local residents. The article shows in some detail the activities of a merchant in early nineteenth-century Penang.
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