From the mid-19th century, vast improvements in steamship and communication technology created an interlinked network of port-cities in the Indian Ocean and maritime Asia. Though Rangoon and Penang had starkly different relationships to colonial rule, they shared a lineage as multi-ethnic ports where various communities had existed side-by-side for centuries. The advent of the Victorian era fostered new class and racial divisions between them, yet also created a new feuilleton culture in the port-city with the mushrooming of newspapers, books, and a new reading public. Diverse ethnic and linguistic communities sought platforms to articulate their concerns and inform themselves of the affairs of the world, and their place within it. Burmese ...
Literature, a kind of aesthetic art, is an effective tool for enlightenment, entertainment and propa...
Andrea Acri, Roger Blench, Alexandra Landmann, Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early Monso...
The aim of this paper is to explore ethnic, cultural, and material changes in the transformative his...
From the mid-19th century, vast improvements in steamship and communication technology created an in...
This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia’s new generation of historians is a tale of two very ...
Late 19th century George Town, the capital city of Penang, a state inpresent-day Malaysia, began as ...
As a thriving cosmopolitan port city in Southeast Asia, Singapore under British colonial rule was qu...
Aceh, as the world’s largest producer of pepper in the nineteenth century and exporter of areca nut,...
This article uses Chinese and English sources to investigate the establishment and transformation of...
As Penang port developed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trading of spices and ...
This study highlights that the British had long experiences in the Malay Peninsula before Francis Li...
The last twenty years have witnessed increased interest in the identification of maritime connection...
In the late nineteenth century, the officers of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegrap...
This chapter considers the complex relationship between reading, literary appreciation and civic par...
This ePaper investigates the Straits Chinese community and their positioning relative to the British...
Literature, a kind of aesthetic art, is an effective tool for enlightenment, entertainment and propa...
Andrea Acri, Roger Blench, Alexandra Landmann, Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early Monso...
The aim of this paper is to explore ethnic, cultural, and material changes in the transformative his...
From the mid-19th century, vast improvements in steamship and communication technology created an in...
This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia’s new generation of historians is a tale of two very ...
Late 19th century George Town, the capital city of Penang, a state inpresent-day Malaysia, began as ...
As a thriving cosmopolitan port city in Southeast Asia, Singapore under British colonial rule was qu...
Aceh, as the world’s largest producer of pepper in the nineteenth century and exporter of areca nut,...
This article uses Chinese and English sources to investigate the establishment and transformation of...
As Penang port developed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trading of spices and ...
This study highlights that the British had long experiences in the Malay Peninsula before Francis Li...
The last twenty years have witnessed increased interest in the identification of maritime connection...
In the late nineteenth century, the officers of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegrap...
This chapter considers the complex relationship between reading, literary appreciation and civic par...
This ePaper investigates the Straits Chinese community and their positioning relative to the British...
Literature, a kind of aesthetic art, is an effective tool for enlightenment, entertainment and propa...
Andrea Acri, Roger Blench, Alexandra Landmann, Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early Monso...
The aim of this paper is to explore ethnic, cultural, and material changes in the transformative his...