Review: Beyond the Blue Gate
Philip Holden Teo Soh Lung, Beyond the Blue Gate, Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Centre, 2010. In recent years, historians have increasingly written not of a single Singapore story,...
View ArticleReview: Realism in Asia
Lim Cheng Tju Yeo Wei Wei (ed.). Realism in Asia, Volume One. Singapore: The National Art Gallery, 2010. 88 pages. A rather curious volume. Realism In Asia Vol 1 is the accompanying publication to the...
View ArticleThe Trouble with ‘Idealism’: Reflections on Intellectual Vocation and Moral...
Kwok Kian-Woon This is a shortened version of a lecture delivered to university students in early November 2010; as with the lecture, this essay is meant to stimulate further discussion, and it does...
View ArticleSuspending/escaping Race: A Civil Society Experience
Constance Singam I was in a taxi chatting with the driver, a Chinese man, when he spotted an Indian woman on the roadside. He points to her and says to me, ‘There’s your country woman’, and I tell him,...
View Article“Chinese-educated” Intellectuals: A Case Study of The Tangent
Kelvin Chia Situating The Tangent: Chinese-educated intellectuals in Singapore’s socio-political history The Chinese community in pre-Independence Singapore can be seen as one that is bifurcated...
View ArticleReading Kuo Pao Kun’s Early Leftist Plays
Clarissa Oon In the half-century from the 1920s to the mid-1970s, Chinese-language drama was a major cultural force and part of the lifeblood of the Chinese community in Singapore. Numerous amateur...
View ArticlePortrait of a Modernist Poet: Lin Fang
Chiu Weili The ‘Modernist’ poetry movement started in Singapore in the late 1950s, with key figures such as Chen Ruixian, Du Nanfa etc. Initially viewed as an off-shoot of its Taiwanese counterpart, it...
View ArticleThe Shifting Sands of Time: Boo Junfeng’s Sandcastle as Filmic History
Lim Cheng Tju and Hong Lysa Can art transcend history, pain and loss? I think art helps in the healing process where there has been trauma. It is an emotional outlet for both the artist and the viewer....
View ArticleEditorial: Intellectual/History
Francis Lim s/pores editor Who are the intellectuals, and what roles do they play in the process of social change in Singapore? What is the relationship between the intellectuals, historical...
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