Structure, Sanitation, and Surveillance: Iron Markets in Late 19th Century Singapore.
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Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia Jun2022, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p220-245, 26p
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Tan, Ian Y.H.
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From 1873 to 1915, the Singapore Municipal Commission (SMC) constructed five markets i...
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Structure, Sanitation, and Surveillance: Iron Markets in Late 19th Century Singapore.
Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia Jun2022, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p220-245, 26p
From 1873 to 1915, the Singapore Municipal Commission (SMC) constructed five markets in the town area, all built with iron as their main structural material. This paper focuses on the construction of two such markets , namely Clyde Terrace Market and Telok Ayer Market , two early iron markets constructed in 1873 and 1894 respectively. Municipal markets were important sites not only to sell produce and fresh meats. They also fulfilled important representational objectives as sites of governance and health control in a colonial city. My paper posits iron as essential in performing this semiotic role. Iron, and other industrial building materials such as glazed tiles, were believed to be resistant to diseases just as they could withstand fire and water. It offered an alternative to masonry and timber in curbing the spread of miasma and germs through building materials and structural improvements. It will examine three aspects instrumental to the transplantation of the western market model in an Asian context. First, establishing a link between the environment and the decision to adopt iron and its engineering technology and knowledge; second, analysing how the epistemological shift from miasma to germ theory impacted architecture; and third, evaluating the influence of sanitary specialists as key proponents shaping the urban environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Story of Singapore's Changing Wet Markets .
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BiblioAsia. Apr-Jun2022, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p38-45. 8p.
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Zoe Yeo
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Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market
A.J.H. Latham;Heita Kawakatsu;A.J.H. Latham;Heita Kawakatsu
Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From t...
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Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market
2006; Vol. 00034
Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained, there was also considerable inter-Asian competition between Asian producers for these Asian markets , and those of the wider world. This collection presents captivating snap-shots of trade in specific commodities, alongside chapters comprehensively covering the region. The book covers: China's relative backwardness, Japanese copper exports, Japan's fur trade, Siam's luxury rice trade, Korea, Japanese shipbuilding, the silk trade, the refined sugar trade, competition in the rice trade, the Japanese cotton textile trade to Africa, multilateral settlements in Asia, the cotton textile trade to Britain, and the growth of the palm oil industry in Malaysia and Indonesia. The opening of Asia, especially in Japan and China, liberated the creative forces of the market within the new intra-Asian economy. Filling a particular gap in the literature on intra-Asian trade prior to the twentieth century, this is an insightful study that makes a considerable contribution to our knowledge of the Asian trade both prior to, and after, the arrival of colonial states. It will be of great interest to historians and economists focusing on Asia.
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ORDER AND CLEANLINESS: SINGAPORE'S PUBLIC BATHHOUSES OF THE 1880S.
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BiblioAsia. Apr-Jun2023, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p30-39. 10p.
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O'Neill, Jesse
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Sounding the Indian Ocean : Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape
Prof. Jim Sykes;Prof. Julia Suzanne Byl;Prof. Jim Sykes;Prof. Julia Suzanne...
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Sounding the Indian Ocean : Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape
2023
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Sounding the Indian Ocean is the first volume to integrate the fields of ethnomusicology and Indian Ocean studies. Drawing on historical and ethnographic approaches, the book explores what music reveals about mobility, diaspora, colonialism, religious networks, media, and performance. Collectively, the chapters examine different ways the Indian Ocean might be “heard” outside of a reliance on colonial archives and elite textual traditions, integrating methods from music and sound studies into the history and anthropology of the region. Challenging the area studies paradigm—which has long cast Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as separate musical cultures—the book shows how music both forms and crosses boundaries in the Indian Ocean world.
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Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
Max Hirsh;Till Mostowlansky;Max Hirsh;Till Mostowlansky
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to...
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Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
2023
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global infrastructure production today is focused squarely on Asia. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia investigates the deeper implications of that pivot to the East. Written by leading international infrastructure experts, it demonstrates how new roads, airports, pipelines, and cables are changing Asian economies, societies, and geopolitics—from the Bosporus to Beijing, and from Indonesia to the Arctic. Ten tightly interwoven case studies powerfully illustrate infrastructure's leading role in three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China's emergence as a superpower.Combining social science methods with mapping techniques from the design professions, Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia establishes a dialogue between academic research on infrastructure and the professional insights of those responsible for infrastructure's planning, production, and operation. By applying that mixed method to transport, energy, telecommunication, and resource extraction projects across Asia, the book synthesizes research on infrastructure from six academic fields, while making those insights accessible to a wider audience of students, professionals, and the general public.For links to the open-access PDF and EPUB editions, chapter downloads, and detailed information, visit the project website: https://infrastructureasia.net/.
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CoronAsur : Asian Religions in the Covidian Age
Emily Zoe Hertzman;Natalie Lang;Erica M. Larson;Carola E. Lorea;Emily Zoe H...
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CoronAsur : Asian Religions in the Covidian Age
2023
For an open-access edition and online resources, including video and additional images, visit the CoronAsur page on Manifold. https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/coronasurBy the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifacts were mobilized to make sense of Covid, including a repertoire of gods and demons like Coronasur, the virus depicted with the horns and fangs of a traditional Hindu demon. Various kinds of knowledge were invoked: theologies, indigenous medicines, and biomedical narratives, as well as ethical values and nationalist sentiments. CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age follows the documentation and analysis of the abrupt societal shifts triggered by the pandemic to understand current and future pandemic times, while revealing further avenues for research on religion that have opened up in the Covidian age.Developed in tandem with the research blog CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19, this volume is a “phygital” publication, a work grounded in empirical roots as well as digitally born communication. It comprises thirty-eight essays and dozens of videos and other online content that examine Asian religious communities—Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist, and Christian as well as popular/folk and new religious movements—in terms of the changes brought on by and the ritual responses to the Covid pandemic.Studying religious narratives, practices, and changes in the Covidian age adds to our understanding of not only the specific groups in which they are situated, but also the coronavirus itself, its disputed etiologies and culturally contextualized exegeses. CoronAsur offers a comprehensive and timely discussion of Covidian transformations in religious communities'engagements with media, spaces, and moral and political economies, documenting how religious practices and discourses have co-produced the meanings of the pandemic.
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
Scott Reese;Scott Reese
This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about w...
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
2022; Vol. 00026
This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-called transition from manuscript to print is unidirectional. Indeed, rather than distinct technologies that emerge in a progressive series (one naturally following the other), they frequently co-exist in complex and complementary relationships – relationships we are only now starting to recognize and explore.The book brings together essays by internationally recognized scholars from an array of disciplines (including philology, linguistics, religious studies, history, anthropology, and typography) whose work focuses on the written word – channeled through various media – as a social and cultural phenomenon within the Islamic tradition. These essays promote systematic approaches to the study of Islamic writing cultures writ large, in an effort to further our understanding of the social, cultural and intellectual relationships between manuscripts, printed texts and the people who use and create them.
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FORGOTTEN HEROES OF THE MALAYA CUP (1921 - 1941): We remember some legendary players of the interwar years who left an indelible mark on the local football scene.
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives
R. Michael Feener;Anne M. Blackburn;R. Michael Feener;Anne M. Blackburn
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives
2018
Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation. This volume was conceived to open up new spaces of creative interaction between scholars in both fields that will increase our understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, ritual practices, and literary specialists.The book's approach is to scrutinize one major dimension of the history of religion in Southern Asia: religious orders. “Orders” (here referring to Sufi ṭarīqas and Buddhist monastic and other ritual lineages) established means by which far-flung local communities could come to be recognized and engaged as part of a broader world of co-religionists, while presenting their particular religious traditions and their human representatives as attractive and authoritative to potential new communities of devotees. Contributors to the volume direct their attention toward analogous developments mutually illuminating for both fields of study. Some explain how certain orders took shape in Southern Asia over the course of the nineteenth century, contextualizing these institutional developments in relation to local and transregional political formations, shifting literary and ritual preferences, and trade connections. Others show how the circulation of people, ideas, texts, objects, and practices across Southern Asia, a region in which both Buddhism and Islam have a long and substantial presence, brought diverse currents of internal reform and notions of ritual and lineage purity to the region. All chapters draw readers'attention to the fact that networked persons were not always strongly institutionalized and often moved through Southern Asia and developed local bases without the oversight of complex corporate organizations.Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia brings cutting-edge research to bear on conversations about how “orders” have functioned within these two traditions to expand and sustain transregional religious networks. It will help to develop a better understanding of the complex roles played by religious networks in the history of Southern Asia.
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Ascending the Milky Way: Seven Sisters Festival and the Religious Practices of Cantonese Women in Singapore.
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Religions. Mar2023, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p406. 23p.
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Wong, Lynn Yuqing
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A.W. Hamilton and the translation of English nursery rhymes into Malay.
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Indonesia & the Malay World. Mar2023, Vol. 51 Issue 149, p73-99. 27p.
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Haroon, Haslina
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Indonesia & the Malay World. Mar2023, Vol. 51 Issue 149, p73-99. 27p.
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NEO TIEW: The Man Who Built Lim Chu Kang.
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Tan, Alvin
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International Integrated Engineering Summit 2014
Al Emran Ismail;Amir Khalid;Aziman Madun;Ahmad Kueh Beng Hong;Fariza Mohama...
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 1st International Integrated Engineering Summi...
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International Integrated Engineering Summit 2014
2015; Vol. 00773
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 1st International Integrated Engineering Summit (IIES 2014), December 1-4, 2014, Batu Pahat, Malaysia
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Competing space and place identity with landscape change analysis using Web GIS through Singapore historical maps (1828–2015).
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. May2019, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p181-198. 18p.
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Kim, Ick‐Hoi;Pow, Choon Piew;Wang, Yi‐Chen;Feng, Chen‐Chieh
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. May2019, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p181-198. 18p.
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The Development and Changes of Singapore Chinese Society in 19–20th Century—An Analysis from the Perspective of Dialect Group Cemetery Hills.
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Histories (2409-9252). Sep2022, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p288-314. 27p.
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Hue, Guan Thye;Liu, Yilin;Klan Choo, Juhn Khai;Dean, Kenneth;Tang, Chang;Wa...
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Histories (2409-9252). Sep2022, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p288-314. 27p.
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State domination in Singapore's public–private partnerships.
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Journal of Urban Affairs. 2021, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p270-287. 18p.
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Fainstein, Susan S.
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Journal of Urban Affairs. 2021, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p270-287. 18p.
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TO WRECK OR TO RECREATE: GIVING NEW LIFE TO SINGAPORE'S BUILT HERITAGE.
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BiblioAsia. Jul-Sep2019, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p44-51. 8p.
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Lim Tin Seng
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Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal.
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American Historical Review. Jun2009, Vol. 114 Issue 3, p547-572. 26p.
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AMRITH, SUNIL S.
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American Historical Review. Jun2009, Vol. 114 Issue 3, p547-572. 26p.
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Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal.
American Historical Review. Jun2009, Vol. 114 Issue 3, p547-572. 26p.
The article explores the Tamil Diaspora in the Bay of Bengal region and aspects of the circulation and mobility of the Tamil people. The author compares the Tamil community across national boundaries with other diaspora communities in topics such as cultural purity, public spheres, and multiethnic popular culture. The author suggests that diasporic consciousness is developed from the interaction of multiple diasporas. Other topics include construction of Hindu temples in Tamil settlements, cultural connections, patterns of migrations and social development, and global labor markets that function through ethnic differentiation.
