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Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811183218
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Growing Up in Kampong Potong Pasir written by Josephine Chia and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789814398602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Kampong Spirit Gotong Royong written by Josephine Chia and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Peranakan author Josephine Chia brings us into the world of her childhood in a kampong. Though deprived of modern comforts like electricity or running water, her multi-racial neighbours lived harmoniously with each other in their attap homes, and had a wonderful zest for life and a strong sense of community. This vibrant kampong spirit, or gotong royong, was a significant aspect of living in a kampong. The period 1955 to 1965 was also a dramatic era for Singapore. As the country struggled towards nationhood, the social and political events of this time and their effects are seen through the eyes of the common folk."--Back cover.
Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811432562
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Goodbye My Kampong! written by Josephine Chia and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965. Kampong life in Singapore did not end in 1965 with her independence. In Josephine Chia’s new collection of non-fiction stories, the phasing out of attap-thatched villages, the largest mass movement in Singapore, is set against the backdrop of significant national events. Weaving personal tribulations—her teenage angst—and the experiences of villagers from her kampong, Josephine skilfully parallels the hopes and challenges of a toddling nation going through the throes of industrialisation and rapid changes from 1966 to 1975. These delightful, real-life stories, sprinkled with snippets of her Peranakan culture, reveal the joie-de-vivre of gotong royong or community spirit, despite impoverished conditions, in the last days of kampong life.
Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789812323989
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Frog Under a Coconut Shell written by Josephine Chia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the true story of the author, of how her own mother struggled for her right to educate her daughters despite her own parochial experience in a small kampong. This highly nostalgic and evocative book pays tribute to her mother's courageous journey from the bloom of youth to her affliction with Alzheimer's disease in old age.
Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811150388
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Goodbye, My Kampong! written by Josephine Chia and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charmaine Leung
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811414939
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
Download or read book 17A Keong Saik Road written by Charmaine Leung and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A… 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in Chinatown in Singapore. An interweaving of past and present narratives, 17A Keong Saik Road tells of her mother’s journey as a young child put up for sale to becoming the madame of a brothel in Keong Saik. Unfolding her story as the daughter of a brothel operator and witnessing these changes to her family, Charmaine traces the transformation of the Keong Saik area from the 1930s to the present, and through writing, finds reconciliation. A beautiful dedication to the past, to memory, and to the people who have gone before us, 17A Keong Saik Road tells the rich stories of the Ma Je, the Pei Pa Zai, and the Dai Gu Liong—marginalised, forgotten women of the past, who despite their difficulties, persevered in working towards the hope of a better future.
Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
ISBN 13 : 9789814779753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Big Tree in a Small Pot written by Josephine Chia and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is a winner of the Singapore Literature Prize.
Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811432570
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
Download or read book When A Flower Dies written by Josephine Chia and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we recover after a life passes on? A novel about love, forgetting and remembering. Pansy Lim, a Peranakan girl, was brought up in a seaside village in colonial Singapore in the 1940s. She inherits her mother’s love for flowers, nature, the sea, and their healing qualities. Educated by English nuns, she learns and grows to love English, literature and poetry. We see her at the start of the novel, aged, forgetful, and desperately clinging to memories of her recently deceased husband. Through her recollections, she remembers George Chan, the village life that they shared, and the communal past left behind by a nation always on the move. “When I pick up one of Josephine Chia’s books on Singapore’s past, I always know that I’m in for a treat. Josephine brings her readers back to the Singapore of the 1950s and 60s that she grew up in and, in her simple, accessible prose she realistically evokes its sights and sounds and smells. In doing so, she helps us to re-live and re-imagine those days and, in singing her song, she helps us to sing ours.” −Angeline Yap, poet and author of “Closing My Eyes to Listen”
Author : Shawn Li Song Seah
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811226709
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book My Father's Kampung: A History Of Aukang And Punggol written by Shawn Li Song Seah and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol as it traces a son's journey to better understand and appreciate the kampung life his father lived. The book is rich in personal stories and oral histories of those who lived there from the 1940s to 1970s, brought to life by Seah's passionate narrative as well as illustrations and photos.This book is supported by the National Heritage Board, with Forewords by Robert Yeo and Montfort Alumni.
Author : Sylvia Tan
Publisher : Landmark Books Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814189502
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Singapore Heritage Food written by Sylvia Tan and published by Landmark Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling classic cookbook by cookery doyen Sylvia Tan provides recipes for the well-loved dishes of Singapore and traces the development of the culinary heritage of the food paradise. Some 15,000 copies in multiple printings have been sold. This reprint, with a refreshed and brighter cover, includes four bonus recipe cards printed on the front and back covers of the book. The recipes and information in Singapore Heritage Food are divided in the following categories:
Author : Derek Thiam Soon Heng
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089640940
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Reframing Singapore written by Derek Thiam Soon Heng and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, Singapore has advanced rapidly towards becoming a both a global city-state and a key nodal point in the international economic sphere. These developments have caused us to reassess how we understand this changing nation, including its history, population, and geography, as well as its transregional and transnational experiences with the external world. This collection spans several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and draws on various theoretical approaches and methodologies in order to produce a more refined understanding of Singapore and to reconceptialize the challenges faced by the country and its peoples.
Author : Nilanjana Sengupta
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981314131X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Singapore, My Country: Biography Of M Bala Subramanion written by Nilanjana Sengupta and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longer would every policy have to bend at the knees for water survival. It was finally time to celebrate liberty!When did the same moment come in Bala's life? Was it when in mid-Atlantic he heard of his promotion as Controller of Posts? Or was it when he was appointed by the President as member of the Parliamentary Elections Minority Committee? Or was it at a moment of tragic loss when he realised he had nothing more to lose?Singapore, My Country tells M Bala Subramanion's story, a second generation Indian who lost his father to the Death Railway, witnessed Subhas Chandra Bose at the Padang and later emerged as not only a senior civil servant but the man behind multiple social interventions, living in a fast evolving Singapore.The histories of the man and his nation remain seamlessly intertwined, each peppered with equal doses of endeavour, ingenuity and a sheer will to survive!
Author : Danielle Lim
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811176043
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Sound of SCH: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey written by Danielle Lim and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a life weave along through the same notes and yet come to play forth different sounds? The Sound of SCH (pronounced S-C-H) is the true story of a journey with mental illness, beautifully told by Danielle Lim from a time when she grew up witnessing her uncle's untold struggle with a crippling mental and social disease, and her mother's difficult role as caregiver. The story takes place between 1961 and 1994, backdropped by a fast-globalising Singapore where stigmatisation of persons afflicted with mental illness nevertheless remains deep-seated. Unflinchingly raw and honest in its portrayal of living with schizophrenia, The Sound of Sch is a moving account of human resiliency and sacrifice in the face of brokenness. Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Non-Fiction 2016)
Author : Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415657822
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Singapore Water Story written by Cecilia Tortajada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the journey of Singapore ́s development and the fundamental role that water has had in shaping it. What makes this case so unique is that the quest for self-sufficiency in terms of water availability in a fast-changing urban context has been crucial to the way development policies and agendas have been planned throughout the years.
Author : Richard James Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Malay-English dictionary written by Richard James Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Ravi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810757557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (575 download)
Download or read book M. Ravi written by M. Ravi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher : Penguin Random House Sea
ISBN 13 : 9789814882002
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Sky written by Josephine Chia and published by Penguin Random House Sea. This book was released on 2019 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Great Grandmother's birthday wish be fulfilled? Amelia is a modern, nine-year-old Peranakan Chinese girl. She adores her Great Grandmother whom she nicknamed GGM. GGM has lots of exciting tales to tell her about old Singapore. She takes Amelia to see the site of her old kampung, an attap-thatched village along the Kallang River where she had met Amelia's famous namesake and aviatrix, Amelia Earhart, the historical Queen of the Sky, in June 1937. GGM is very active and does not behave like a doddering Senior. She started skiing at sixty and wants to do something adventurous for her 90th birthday. But the entire family does not approve.
