Singapore, 1914-1941

Akashi, Yoji . Lai Teck, secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party. Journal of the South Seas Society, 49:57-103, 1994. [DS501 SSSJ]

Akashi, Yoji . The Nanyang Chinese anti-Japanese boycott movement, 1908-1928: a study of Nanyang Chinese nationalism. Journal of the South Seas Society, 23(1/2):69-96, 1968. [DS501 SSSJ]

Akashi, Yoji . The Nanyang Chinese national salvation movement, 1937-1941. Lawrence, KS: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 1970. 211p. [DS732 Aka]

Allen, Louis M.  Fujiwara and Suzuki: patterns of Asian liberation. IN Newell, William H., ed. Japan in Asia. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1981. Discusses the part played by Major Iwaichi Fujiwara and Captain Mohan Singh in the development of the Indian National Army in Malaya. Pp. 83-102. [DS845 Jap]

Andrew, Martin Kenneth . The Singapore police force 1918-1938. 191p. Thesis (M.A.) - Northern Territory University, 2000. [JA36*NTU 2000 1]

Arasaratnam Sinnappah . Social reform and reformist pressure groups among the Indians of Malaya and Singapore, 1930-1955. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 40(2):54-67, 1967. [DS591 RASMJ]

Ban, Kah Choon . Absent history: the untold story of Special Branch operations in Singapore 1915-1942. Singapore: Raffles, 2001. 269p. [DS599.61 Ban]

Braddell, Roland St. John . The lights of Singapore. London: Methuen, 1934. 205p. [DS599.2 Bra]

Brimmell, J. H.  Communism in South East Asia: a political analysis. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. 415p. Places the communist movement in Singapore in a regional context. [DS526.7 Bri]

Brimmell, J. H.  A short history of the Malayan Communist Party. Singapore: Donald Moore, 1956. 26p. [HX766.1 Bri]

Brown, Edwin Arthur.  Indiscreet memories. London: Kelly & Walsh, 1935. 258p. [DS599.7 Bro]

Brown, Ian . The British merchant community in Singapore and Japanese commercial expansion in the 1930s. IN Sugiyama, S. & Guerrero, M. C., eds. International commercial rivalry in Southeast Asia in the interwar period. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1994. Pp. 111-132. [HF3828 Asi.I]

Brownfoot, Janice N.  Memsahibs in colonial Malaya: a study of European wives in a British colony and protectorate 1900-1940. IN Callan, H. & Ardener, S., eds. The incorporated wife. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. 186-218. [HQ759 Inc]

Burns, Peter Laurie . The English language newspapers of Singapore, 1915-1951. 67p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1957. [PN5449.12 Bur]

Chan, John Chuan Chye . Aw Boon Haw: an outsider's struggle for Chinese leadership in Singapore. 87p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1989. [D6 *1989 5]

Chen, Ta . Chinese migrations, with special reference to labor conditions. Washington, DC: Govt. Print. Off., 1923. 237p. [JV8701 Che]

Chen, Ta . Emigrant communities in south China: a study of overseas migration and its influence on standards of living and social change. New York: AMS Press, 1978. 287p. Reprint. Originally published in 1940. [DS721 Che]

Cheng, Seow Cheng . The Singapore Improvement Trust and pre-war housing. 151p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1995. [D6 *1995 3]

Chesneaux, Jean . The Chinese labor movement, 1919-1927. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968. 574p. A valuable background study. [HD8676 Che]

Chia, Grace Beng Imm . Asian members of the Straits Settlements Legislative Council, 1908-1941. 87p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1961. [DS595.5 Chi]

Chiang, Claire . Female migrants in Singapore: towards a strategy of pragmatism and coping. IN Jaschok, M. & Miers, S., eds. Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University, 1994. Pp. 238-263. Looks at the lives of shan-shui women in the Singapore of the 1930s. [HQ1768 Wom]

Ching, Seow-Ying . A King's Chinese: a study of Song Ong Siang. iii, 49p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1973. [D6 *1973 8]

Chong, Peng Hong . Chinese female immigration to the Straits Settlements from 1901 to 1941. 87p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1984. [D6 *1984 4]

Choo, Eng Kang . The Singapore trade depression, 1920-22. 72p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1976. [D6 *1976 3]

Chu, Tee Seng . The Singapore Chinese Protectorate, 1900-1941. 97p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1960. [JQ725 Chu]

Chui, Kwei Chiang . Political attitudes and organizations, c.1900-1941. IN Chew, Ernest C. T. & Lee, Edwin, eds. A history of Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 66-91 [DS599.63 His]

Clarence-Smith, William Gervase . Hadhrami Arab entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: facing the challenge of the 1930s recession. IN Boomgaard, Peter & Brown, Ian, eds. Weathering the storm: the economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s depression. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000. Pp. 229-248. [HC497 Sou.We]

Cooper, Bryan C.  Decade of change: Malaya and the Straits Settlements 1936-1945. Singapore: Graham Brash, 1998. 623p. [DS596.4 Coo]

DeBernardi, Jean . Lim Boon Keng and the invention of cosmopolitanism in the Straits Settlements. IN DeBernardi, J.; Forth, G. & Niessen, S., eds. Managing change in Southeast Asia: local identities, global connections. Montreal: Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, 1995. Pp. 173-187. [DS501.5 Ccsc 21]

Dixon, Alec . Singapore patrol. London: Harrap, 1935. 269p. Describes a junior policeman's work in the 1920s. [ HV7914 Dix]

Duleep Singh Kaulsay . Civil aviation in Singapore, 1919-1955. 57p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1958. [TL527.12 Dul]

Education in Malaya: being articles reprinted from "Oversea education" (published by the Colonial Office), 1930 to 1942, and 1946. Kuala Lumpur: Govt. Press, 1948. 160p. [LA1236 Edu]

Ee, Joyce . Chinese migration to Singapore, 1896-1941. Journal of Southeast Asian History, 2(1):33-51, 1961. [DS501 JSAS]

Ee, Joyce . A study of Chinese migration to Singapore, 1896-1941. 1 vol. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1960. [DS599.4 Ee]

Emerson, Rupert . Malaysia: a study in direct and indirect rule. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1964. 536p. Reprint. Originally published in New York, 1937. An analysis and commentary on government and society in the Straits Settlements in the 1930s. 
[DS592 Eme]

Emerson, Rupert ; Mills, L. A.  & Thompson, Virginia . Government and nationalism in the Southeast Asia. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942. 242p. [DS518 Eme]

Emmanuel, Mark Visuvasum . Trading with the enemy: economic warfare against Germany in the Straits Settlements, 1914-1921. 73p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1996. [D6 *1996 6]

Fifty eight years of enterprise: souvenir volume of the new building of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 1964. Singapore: L. M. Creative Publicity, 1964. 220p. Has material about Chinese  leaders and the activities of the Chamber. [HF331.12 Fif]

Fong, Lai Yoke . The Singapore Chinese Advisory Board 1889-1933. 91p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 6]

Fong, Monica S.  Female labor force participation in a modernizing society: Malaya and Singapore, 1921-1957. Honolulu: East-West Population Institute, East-West Center, 1975. 39p. 
[HD6205.1 Fon]

Foran, William Robert . Malayan symphony: being the impressions gathered during a six months' journey through the Straits Settlements, Federate Malay States, Siam, Sumatra, Java and Bali. London: Hutchinson, 1935. 302p. Contains descriptions of Singapore in the mid-thirties. [DS592 For]

Gailey, Harry A.  Clifford, imperial proconsul. London: Collings, 1982. 209p. Has a brief section on Clifford's time as governor in the late 1920s. [DS595.6 Cli.Ga]

Gamba, Charles . The origins of trade unionism in Malaya: a study in colonial labour unrest. Singapore: Donald Moore for Eastern Universities Press, 1962. 511p. [HD6855 Gam.O]

Govindasamy, Palanivel K.  A study of the background to Malayan Indian politics, 1900-1941. 57p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1972. [D6*M 1972 1]

Great Britain. Colonial Office . Higher education in Malaya: report of the Commission appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, June, 1939. London: H.M.S.O., 1939. 150p. William H. McLean, chairman. [LA1238 Gre]

Gubler, Greg . The pre-Pacific War Japanese community in Singapore. 161 leaves. Thesis (M.A.) - Brigham Young University, 1972. [DS3*BYU 1972 1]

Guillemard, Laurence . Trivial fond records. London: Methuen, 1937. 187p. Has an account of author's governorship from 1919 to 1927. [DS595.6 Gui]

Gunavalli, A. Sundaraju . The Tamil Murasu: the evolution of a local Tamil newspaper 1935-1974. 69p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. 
[D6 *1990 7]

Gwee, Yee Hean . The training of teachers in Singapore, 1870-1940. Singapore: Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Graduate Studies, Nanyang University, 1976. 
25 leaves. [LB1727.12 Gwe]

Harper, R. W. E.  & Miller, Harry . Singapore Mutiny. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984. 254p. [DS599.61 Har]

Hashimah Johari . Early book publishing in Malay by Malay publishers in Singapore and the Malay Peninsular until 1929. 138 p. Thesis (M.A.) - University College London, 1988. 
[Z674*UCL 1988 1]

Hernaikh Singh Dhaliwal . Poverty in Singapore in the 1920s and 1930s. 100p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1989. [D6 *1989 11]

Hicks, George , ed. Chinese organisations in Southeast Asia in the 1930s. Singapore: Select Books, 1995. 168p. Originally published in 1943 in Japanese as: Survey of overseas Chinese organisations in South-East Asia (Nanyang). [HS1508.12 Chi]

Hicks, George H. , ed. Overseas Chinese remittances from Southeast Asia, 1910-1940. Singapore: Select Books, 1993. 352p. [DS523.4 Chi.Ov]

Hsu, Yun-Ts'iao  & Chua, Ser Koon, eds . Malayan Chinese resistance to Japan 1937-1945: selected source materials. Singapore: Cultural and Historical Publishing House, 1984. 1120p. Source materials are in Chinese and English. [DS596.4 Xmhr]

Huff, W. G.  The development of the rubber market in pre-World War II Singapore. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 24(2):285-306, 1993. [DS501 JSAS]

Ibrahim Abu Bakar . Islamic modernism in Malaya: the life and thought of Sayid Syekh Al-Hadi 1867-1934. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1994. 199p. [PL5138 Hs*Iab]

Jagjit Singh Sidhu . The administration of Sir Cecil Clementi. 62p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1959. [DS595.6 Cle.J]

Jispal Singh . Political banishment in Malaya, 1900-1941. 92p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1989. [D6 *1989 12]

Jones, Alun . Internal security in British Malaya, 1895-1942. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1974. 263 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Yale University, 1970. 
[DS596.3 Jon]

Kaberry, Phyllis M.  British colonial policy in South-East Asia and the development of self-government in Malaya. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1944. 91p. [JQ692.3 Kab]

Kee, Yee Siew . The Japanese in Malaya before 1942. Journal of the South Seas Society, 20(1&2):48-88, 1966. [DS501 SSSJ]

Kee, Yeh Siew . The Japanese in Malaya before 1942. 61p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1958. [DS595 Kee]

Kemp, Rosemary . An investigation into the social hygiene problem in Singapore during the 1920s. Journal of the South Seas Society, 51:50-123, 1996. Thesis (B.A. Hons.) - Flinders University of South Australia, 1993. [DS501 SSSJ]

Khoo, Kay Kim . The municipal government of Singapore, 1887-1940. 67p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1960. [JS7152.3 Kho]

Khor, Eng Hee . The public life of Dr. Lim Boon Keng. 53p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1958. [DS599.51 Lbk.K]

Koh, Denis Soo Jin  & Tanaka, Kyoko . Japanese competition in the trade of Malaya in the 1930s. Southeast Asian Studies, 21(4):374-399, 1984. [DS510.7 SAS]

Koh, Joh Ting . Child death in municipal Singapore, 1900-1930: an analysis of the evidence of the coroner's court. 59p. Academic exercise--Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 9]

Kok, Loy Fatt . Colonial Office policy towards education in Malaya 1920-1940. 108p. Thesis (M.Ed.) - Fakulti Pendidikan, Universiti Malaya, 1978. [LB7*M 1978 3]

Kok, Pin Loong . Aliens Ordinance, 1933. 45p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1973. [D6 *1973 5]

Kratoska, Paul H.  Imperial unity versus local autonomy: British Malaya and the depression of the 1930s. IN Boomgaard, Peter & Brown, Ian, eds. Weathering the storm: the economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s depression. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000. Pp. 271-291. [HC497 Sou.We]

Ku, Hung Ting . Kuomintang's mass movement and the Kreta Ayer incident (1927) in Malaya. Singapore: Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Graduate Studies, Nanyang University, 1976. 37 leaves. [JQ699.2 *Kuo.K]

Kuldip Singh . Municipal sanitation in Singapore, 1887-1940. 84p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 10]

Kuwajima, Sho . First World War and Asia: Indian Mutiny in Singapore (1915). Osaka: Sho Kuwajima, 1988. 154p. [DS599.61 Kuw]

Lai, Ah Eng . Peasants, proletarians, and prostitutes: a preliminary investigation into the work of Chinese women in colonial Malaya. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1986. 115p. Revised version of thesis (M.A.), Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, 1981. [HD6205.1 Lai]

Lasker, Bruno . Human bondage in Southeast Asia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1950. 406p. Gives a brief treatment of the mui tsai question in Singapore. [HD4871 Las]

Lee, Edwin . Introduction. IN Song, Ong Siang. One hundred years' history of the Chinese in Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press , 1984. Pp. v-xv. An account of the life of Sir Song Ong Siang. [DS599.6 Son]

Lee, Su Yin . British Chinese policy in Singapore, 1930s to mid-1950s: with particular focus on the public service career of Tan Chin Tuan. 218p. Thesis (M.A.) - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1996. [D6 *1996 31]

Lee, Yong Hock . A history of the Straits Chinese British Association, 1900-1959. 121p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1960. [DS595 Lee]

Leong, Stephen . The Kuomintang-Communist United Front in Malaya during the National Salvation period 1937-1941. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 8(1):31-47, 1977. [DS501 JSAS]

Leong, Stephen . The Malayan overseas Chinese and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 10(2):293-320, 1979. [DS501 JSAS]

Leong, Stephen . Sources, agencies, and manifestations of overseas Chinese nationalism in Malaya, 1937-1941. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1978. 2 vols. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of California, 1976. [JQ699.2 *Kuo.L]

Leong, Yee Fong . Chinese politics and political parties in colonial Malaya, 1920-1940: a study of the Kuomintang and the Malayan Communist Party. 214p. Thesis (M.A.) - Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1977. [JA36*S 1977 1]

Leong, Yee Fong . Labour and trade unionism in colonial Malaya: a study of the socio-economic and political bases of the Malayan labour movement, 1930-1957. Pulau Pinang: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1999. 347p. Revised version of author’s doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Malaya in 1989. [HD6855 Leo]

Leong, Yee Fong. Labour and trade unionism in colonial Malaya: a study of the socio-economic and political bases of the Malayan labour movement, 1930-1957. 535p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Universiti Malaya, 1990. [D6*M 1990 1]

Leung, Yuen Sang . The Singapore Hainanese and their political orientation during the inter-war period. IN Ng Lun, N.-h. & Chang, C. Y., eds. Overseas Chinese in Asia between the two world wars. Hong Kong: Overseas Chinese Archives, Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. Pp. 203-218. [DS599.4 Ove]

Lim, Hong Bee . Born into war: autobiography of a barefoot colonial boy who grew up to face the challenge of the modern world. London: Excalibur Press, 1994. 458p. [DS595.6 Lhb]

Lim, Janet . Sold for silver: an autobiography. London: Collins, 1958. 255p. [DS599.51 Lim]

Liu, Gretchen . From the family album: portraits from the Lee Brothers Studio, Singapore 1910-1925. Singapore: Landmark Books for National Heritage Board, 1995. 127p. [TR681 Fam.Fr]

Lockhart, Robert Bruce . Return to Malaya. London: Putnam, 19376. 426p. Compares the Singapore of the mid-1930s with the pre-First World War era. [DS592 Loc ]

Loh, Philip Fook Seng . Raffles College. 1 vol. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1958. [LG399 RC*L]

Loh, Philip Fook Seng . Seeds of separatism: educational policy in Malaya, 1874-1940. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1975. 165p. [LA1236 Loh]

Loh, Shu Ching . The Singapore Chinese community: from sojourners to citizens 1900-1957. 85p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1989. [D6 *1989 13]

Low, N. I.  Chinese jetsam on a tropic shore. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1974. 174p. [DS599.51 Low]

McKenna, R. B.  Sir Laurence Guillemard and political control of the Chinese in Singapore, 1920-1927. Journal of the South Seas Society, 49:10-33, 1994. [DS501 SSSJ]

McKie, R. C. H . This was Singapore. London: Hale, 1950. 222p. Reminiscences of life during the period 1937-1939. [DS599.2 Mack]

McLane, Charles B.  Soviet strategies in Southeast Asia: an exploration of Eastern policy under Lenin and Stalin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966. 563p.7 Sets Singapore in the Communist International background. [DS525.9 Sov.M]

MacNair, H. F.  The Chinese abroad, their position and protection: a study in international law and relations. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1926.340p. [JV8701 Macn]

Metzger, Laurent. Joseph Ducroux, a French agent of the Comintern in Singapore (1931-1932). Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 69(1):1-20, 1996. 
[DS591 RASMJ]

Miers, Suzanne . Mui tsai through the eyes of the victim: Janet Lim's story of bondage and escape. IN Jaschok, M. & Miers, S., eds. Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University, 1994. Pp. 108-121. Janet Lim, author of Sold for silver, recalls how she was sold in 1930 and then imported into Singapore as a mui tsai, her years of servitude and her subsequent escape, and the impact of those years on her life. [HQ1768 Wom]

Miller, Harry . Menace in Malaya. London: Harrap, 1954. 248p. Has an account of the early communist movement in Singapore. [DS596.5 Mil]

Mills, L. A.  British rule in eastern Asia: a study of contemporary government and economic development in British Malaya and Hong Kong. London: Oxford University Press, 1942. 581p. A commentary based on a 1936-37 visit and documentary study. [HC497.1 Mil]

Mosbergen, Rudolf William . The Sepoy Rebellion: a history of the Singapore Mutiny, 1915. 71p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1954. [DS599.61 Mos]

Mun, Wai Kin . The role of the press in sustaining the development of overseas Chinese nationalism in Singapore, 1914-19. 95p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1997. [D6 *1997 14]

Nagle, J. Stewart . Educational needs of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. Baltimore, MD: Printed by John H. Laird & Sons, 1928. 194p. Originally presented as thesis (Ph.D.) - Johns Hopkins University, 1926. [LA1236 Nag]

Nair, Vasandakumari . Tamils Reform Association, Singapore 1932-61. 46p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1973. [D6 *1973 10]

Nathan, J. E.  The census of British Malaya, 1921. London: Dunstable and Watford, 1922. 406 p. [HA1792 Mal 1921]

Navaratnam, Gloriosa Louise Annam . Sir Laurence Guillemard and decentralisation, 1920-1927. 37p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1958. [DS595.6 Gui.N]

Ng, Sin Yue . Malayan Communist Party and overseas Chinese nationalism in Malaya 1937-1941. 68p. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Hull, 1981. [HX766.1 Ng]

Ng, Wing Chung . Urban Chinese social organization: some unexplored aspects in huiguan development in Singapore, 1900-1941. Modern Asian Studies, 26(3):469-494, 1992. [DS1 MAS]

Ng Lun, Ngai-ha . & Chang, Chak Yan ., eds. Overseas Chinese in Asia between the two world wars. Hong Kong: Overseas Chinese Archives, Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. Has articles on Malaya and Singapore but most of the contributions are written in Chinese. 451p. [DS599.4 Ove]

Norberts, George Juris . British management of the Japanese problem in Malaya during the tenure of Governor Shenton Thomas, 1934-1942. Journal of the South Seas Society, 52:98-136, 1988. [DS501 SSSJ]

Ong, Adrian . Straits Chinese politics 1890-1942. 74p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 13]

Ong, Ai Choo . The Sepoy Mutiny in Singapore, 1915. 39p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1974. [D6 *1974 2]

Ong, Yen Her . The politics of Chinese education in Singapore during the colonial period, 1911-1959. 161p. Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.) - Dept. of Political Science, University of Singapore, 1975. 
[JA36 *1975 2]

Onraet, Rene Henry de Solminihae . Singapore: a police background. London: Crisp, 1947. 152p. An account by an Inspector-General of Police of the inter-war years. [DS599.4 Onr]

The Opium trade, 1910-1941. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1974. 6 vols.  
Contents: 1. 1910-1911 - 2. 1912 - 3. 1913-1916 - 4. 1917-1921 - 5. 1922-1926 -  6. 1927-1941. Includes Foreign Office documents (FO 415) on the opium trade and Colonial Office documents (CO 882) on social hygiene in Singapore in the 1920s. [HV5816 Opi]

Pang, Wing Seng . The Double Seventh Incident, 1937: Singapore Chinese response to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 4(2):269-299, 1973. [DS501 JSAS]

Parmer, J. Norman . Attempts at labour organization by Chinese workers in certain industries in the 1930s. IN Tregonning, K. G., ed. Papers on Malayan history. Singapore: Journal of South-East Asian History, 1962. Pp. 239-255. [DS596 Int]

Paul, Grace . The Poh Leung Kuk in Singapore: protection of women and girls. 92p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 14]

Peet, George L.  Rickshaw reporter. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1985. 226 p. Memories of Peet's first tour of duty from 1923-1927 as a young reporter. [DS599.51 Pee]

Pillay P. Krishnan . Press and film censorship in colonial Singapore 1915-1959. 88p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 15]

Png, Poh Seng . The Kuomintang in Malaya, 1912-1941. Journal of Southeast Asian History, 2(2):1-32, 1961. [DS501 JSAH]

Png, Poh Seng . The Kuomintang in Malaya, 1912-1941. 115p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1960. [JQ699.2 *Kuo.P]

Purcell, Victor . The memoirs of a Malayan official. London: Cassell, 1965. 373p.  Author was a Malayan Civil Service official from 1921-1946. [DS595.6 Pur]

Purcell, Victor . Problems of Chinese education. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1936. 261p. [LA1131 Pur]

Read, Chris . The importance of 1919 as a watershed year in the political history of Singapore and Malaysia. Journal of the South Seas Society, 50:1-49, 1995. Thesis (B.A. Hons.) - Flinders University of South Australia, 1992. [DS501 SSSJ]

Rennie, J. S. M.  Musings of J.S.M.R., mostly Malayan. Singapore: Malaya Pub. House, 1933. 197p. [DS592 Ren]

Rimmer, Peter J.  Hackney carriage syces and rikisha pullers in Singapore: a colonial registrar's perspective on the public transport, 1892-1923. IN Rimmer, P. J. & Allen, L. M., eds. The underside of Malaysian history: pullers, prostitutes, plantation workers. Singapore: Singapore University Press for Malaysia Society of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, 1990. Pp. 129-160. [HD8769 Und]

Robertson, Eric . The Japanese file: pre-war Japanese penetration in Southeast Asia. Hong Kong: Heinemann Asia, 1979. 179p. An account of Japanese intelligence activities in Southeast Asia, and Malaya in particular, before the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941, derived largely from files prepared by the Special Branch of the Straits Settlements Police.  [DS596.3 Rob]

Rudolph, Jurgen . Amusements in the three “worlds”. IN Krishnan, Sanjay , et al., eds. Looking at culture. Singapore: Artres Design and Communications, 1996. 182p. A look at three amusement parks in Singapore - the New World, the Great World, and the Happy World – between the 1920s and the 1960s. [N72 Soc]

Rustam A. Sani . The origin of the Malay Left: an analysis of the social roots. 103p. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Kent, 1975. [JQ699.5 Ras]

Sareen, Tilak Raj . Secret documents on Singapore Mutiny, 1915. New Delhi: Mounto Pub. House, 1995. 866p. [DS599.61 Sar]

Shimizu, Hajime . Southeast Asia in modern Japanese thought: essays on Japanese-Southeast Asian relationship, 1880-1940. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Prefectural University, 1997. 304p. Contains, amongst other, articles on Japanese economic penetration into Southeast Asia including pre-war Borneo, Malaya and Singapore. [DS849 Sou.S]

Shimizu, Hiroshi . Kobe’s overseas Chinese merchants and Japan’s trade expansion into pre-war Southeast Asia. Asian Culture, 21:1-18, June 1997. [DS1 AC]

Short, Brock K.  Indigenous banking in the early period of development: the Straits Settlements 1914-1940. Malayan Economic Review, 16(1):57-75, 1971. [HC497.1 MER]

Sim, Victor . Biographies of prominent Chinese in Singapore. Singapore: Nan Kok Publication Company, 1950. 111p. [DS599.5 Bio]

Singapore. Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Cause of the Present Housing Difficulties in Singapore.  Proceedings and report of the Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Cause of the Present Housing Difficulties in Singapore. Singapore: Govt. Print. Off., 1918. 2 vols. [HD7371.12 Sin]

Singapore: a handbook of information: presented by the Rotary Club and the Municipal Commissioners of the Town of Singapore. Singapore: Publicity Committee of the Rotary Club  of Singapore, 1933. 110p. [DS599.2 Rot]

Soenarno, R.  Malay nationalism, 1900-1945. Journal of Southeast Asian History, 1:1-28, 1960. [DS501 JSAH]

Soenarno, R.  The political attitudes of the Malays before 1945. 59p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1959. [DS596 Soe]

Soh, Byungkuk . From parochial to national outlook: Malay society in transition, 1920-1948. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1993. 459p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Ohio University, 1993. [DS596*UMI 4]

Soh, Byungkuk . Putera-putera setia: a study of the radical Malay intelligentsia in Malaya, 1937-1945. 88p. Thesis (M.A.) - Ohio University, 1989. Includes a seminar paper entitled "The Japanese occupation and Malay nationalism: some questions about the impact of the Japanese occupation of Malaya (1942-45) on the development of Malay nationalism." (28p.)
[JA36*OU 1989 1]

Stockwell, A. J.  Early tourism in Malaya. IN Hitchcock, Michael; King, Victor T. & Parnwell, Michael J. G., eds. Tourism in South-East Asia. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 258-270. [HD9999 Tou.Tou]

Straits Settlements. Technical Education Committee . Report to consider the feasibility of industrial and technical education in Singapore and the type of classes and institutions required. Singapore: Govt. Print. Off., 1925. 48p. [T163.12 Str]

Straits Settlements. Trade Commission . Report of the Commission appointed by His Excellency the Governor of the Straits Settlements to enquire into and report on the trade of the Colony 1933-1934. Singapore: Govt. Print. Off., 1934. 5 vols. Microfilm.

Suresh Kumar . Singapore Indian Association, 1923-1941. 59p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1995. [D6 *1995 22]

Tai, Yuen . Labour unrest in Malaya, 1934-1941: the rise of the workers' movement. Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research, University of Malaya, 2000. 284p. Based on author’s thesis submitted to the University of Hong Kong in 1973. [HD5435.1 Tai]

Tai, Yuen . Labour unrest in Malaya, 1934-1941. 393p. Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Hong Kong, 1973. Microfilm.

Tan, Cheng Lock . Malayan problems: from a Chinese point of view. Edited by C.Q. Lee. Singapore: Tannsco, 1947. 182p. Speeches and pamphlets before, during and after the Second World War. [JQ692.5 Tan]

Tan, Han Hoe . A study of the Singapore slum problem, 1907-41: with special reference to the Singapore Improvements Trust. 92p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1959. [HV4155.12 Tan]

Tan, Kah Kee . The memoirs of Tan Kah-Kee. Edited and translated with notes by A. H. C. Ward, Raymond W. Chu & Janet Salaff. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1994. 366p. [DS599.51 Tkk]

Tan, Patsie Chee Peng . The anti-opium campaign in pre-1942 Singapore. 70p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1993. [D6 *1993 17]

Tan, Seng Huat, Mrs.  The life and times of Sayyid Shaykh al-Hadi. 133p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1961. [DS595.6 Had.C]

Tarling, Nicholas . Britain, Southeast Asia and the onset of the Pacific War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 434p. Describes British policy in Southeast Asia between the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 and the opening of the Pacific war at the end of 1941 and its faltering attempts to remain the major colonial power in Asia. Companion volume to Britain, Southeast Asia and the onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950. [DS525.9 Gre.T]

Tarling, Nicholas. The Singapore Mutiny of 1915. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 55(2):26-59, 1982. [DS591 RASMJ]

Teasdale, Jean . Facing the bow: European women in colonial Malaya, 1919 to 1945. Nedlands, WA: Centre for Migration and Development Studies, University of Western Australia, 1997. Stories of eighteen European women who lived and worked in Malaya during 1919 to 1945, in what was very much a male dominated society. 262p. [DS596.4 Tea]

Teoh, Chai Lean . The administration of Sir Shenton Thomas 1934-1946. 81p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History - University of Malaya, 1959. [DS595.6 Tho.T]

Thiruchelvam Selvadurai . Some observations on the population of Singapore at the 1931 and 1947 censuses. 87p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Economics, University of Malaya, 1951. [HB3660.2 Thi]

Thompson, Virginia . Labor problems in Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1947. 283p. Deals with the immediate post-war strikes. [HD8666 Tho]

Thompson, Virginia . Postmortem on Malaya. New York: Macmillan, 1943. 323p. A critical analysis of the colonial system. [HC497.1 Tho]

Town planning in Singapore. Journal of the Town Planning Institute: 81-83, 1928. [PERIND]

Turnbull, C. M.  Overseas Chinese attitudes to nationalism in Malaya between the two world wars. IN Ng Lun, N.-h. & Chang, C. Y., eds. Overseas Chinese in Asia between the two world wars. Hong Kong: Overseas Chinese Archives, Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. Pp. 367-374. [DS599.4 Ove]

Van Cuylenburg, John Bertram . Singapore: through sunshine and shadow. Singapore: Heinemann Asia, 1982. 264p. [DS599.51 Vanc]

Visvanathan, Ramalingam . Riots in Singapore, 1900-1940. 47p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1959. [HV6485.12 Vis]

Vlieland, C. A.  British Malaya: a report of the 1931 census and on certain problems of vital statistics. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1932. 1 vol. [HA1792 Mal 1931]

Wang, Gungwu . The limits of Nanyang Chinese nationalism, 1912-1937. IN Cowan, C. D. & Wolters, O. W., eds. Southeast Asian history and historiography: essays presented to D. G. E. Hall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976. Pp. 405-423. [DS524.4 Sou]

Warren, James Francis . Chinese prostitution in Singapore: recruitment and brothel organisation. IN Jaschok, M. & Miers, S., eds. Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University, 1994. Pp. 77-107. Examined how prostitution was organised and regulated in the period from 1880 to 1940. [HQ1768 Wom]

Warren, James Francis . Karayuki-san of Singapore, 1877-1941. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 622(2):45-80, 1989. [DS591 RASMJ]

Warren, James Francis . Rickshaw coolie: a people's history of Singapore 1880-1940. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1986. 391p. [HD8039 Ric.W]

Wong, Chow Ming . The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce 1906-1942. 86p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 20]

Wong, Francis Hoy Kee  & Gwee, Yee Hean . Official reports on education: the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, 1870-1939. Singapore: Pan Pacific Book Distributors, 1980. 164p. [LA1236 Won]

Wright, Clifton . Cameos of the old Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements 1912-1924. Ilfracombe, UK: Stockwell, 1972. 187p. [DS592 Wrg]

Yap, Pheng Geck . Scholar, banker, gentleman soldier: the reminiscences of Dr. Yap Pheng Geck. Singapore: Times Books International, 1982. 122p. [DS599.51 Yap]

Yen, Ching Hwang . The overseas Chinese and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. Journal of the South Seas Society, 52:150-159, 1998. [DS501 SSSJ]

Yeo, Eng Leng . Effects of Great Depression on Singapore. 47p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1973. [D6 *1973 4]

Yeo, Hwee Joo . The Chinese Consulate-General in Singapore 1911-1941. Journal of the South Seas Society, 41(1&2):79-105, 1986. [DS501 SSSJ]

Yeo, Hwee Joo . The Chinese Consulate-General in Singapore 1911-1941. 94p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1986. [D6 *1986 24]

Yeo, Kim Wah . The Communist challenge in the Malayan labour scene. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 49(2):36-79, 1979. [DS591 RASMJ]

Yeo, Kim Wah . The Guillemard-Maxwell power struggle, 1921-1925. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 54(1):48-64, 1981. [DS591 RASMJ]

Yeo, Kim Wah . The politics of decentralization: colonial controversy in Malaya 1920-1929. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1982. 395p. [DS596.3 Yeo]

Yeoh, Brenda S. A. An illusion of improvement: the beginnings of town planning in Singapore. Architecture Journal, 93-101, 1992. Explores the beginnings of formalised town planning in Singapore. [NA6 AJ]

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.  The control of "sacred" space: conflicts over the Chinese burial grounds in colonial Singapore, 1880-1930. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 22(2):282-311, 1991. [DS501 JSAS]

Yong, C. F.  Emergence of Chinese community leaders in Singapore, 1890-1941. Journal of the South Seas Society, 30(1/2):1-18, 1975. [DS501 SSSJ]

Yong, C. F.  The first wave of Chinese communists in British Malaya, 1921-1924. Asian Culture, 17:127-148, June 1993. [DS1 AC]

Yong, C. F.  An investigation into the leadership, ideology, and organization of the Malayan communist movement, 1936-1941. Journal of Malaysian Studies, 1:127-154, 1997. [DS595.2 MLXYH]

Yong, C. F.  Law and order: British management of Malayan communism during the interwar years, 1919-1941. IN Barrington, B., ed. Empires, imperialism and Southeast Asia: essays in honour of Nicholas Tarling. Clayton, Vic.: Monash Asia Institute, 1997. Pp. 126-149. 
[DS525.9 Gre.Em]

Yong, C. F.  Leadership and power in the Chinese community of Singapore during the 1930s. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 8(2):195-209, 1977. [DS501 JSAS]

Yong, C. F.  The 1911 revolution and the Kuomintang movement in Malaya and Singapore, 1912-1925. IN Lee, Lai To, ed. The 1911 revolution: the Chinese in British and Dutch Southeast Asia. Singapore: Heinemann Asia, 1987. Pp. 90-107. [DS523.4 Chi.Ni]

Yong, C. F.  The origins of Malayan communism. Singapore: South Seas Society, 1997. 312p. [DS596.3 Yon]

Yong, C. F.  Pang, pang organizations and leadership in the Chinese community of Singapore during the 1930s. Journal of the South Seas Society, 32(1/2):31-52, 1977. [DS501 SSSJ]

Yong, C F. A preliminary study of Chinese leadership in Singapore 1914-1940. Journal of Southeast Asian History, 9(2):258-285, 1968. [DS501 JSAH]

Yong, C. F.  The second wave of communism in British Malaya, 1925-1927. Asian Culture, 21:50-69, June 1997. [DS1 AC]

Yong, C. F.  Singapore politics in late colonial era: an introduction. Journal of the South Seas Society, 49:1-9, 1994. [DS501 SSSJ]

Yong, C. F.  Sir Cecil Clementi and the Straits Chinese, 1930-1934. Journal of the South Seas Society, 49:34-56, 1994. [DS501 SSSJ]

Yong, C. F.  Tan Kah-Kee: the making of an overseas Chinese legend. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987. 391p. [DS599.51 Tkk.Y]

Yong, C. F.  & McKenna, R. B.  The Kuomintang movement in British Malaya, 1912-1949. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1990. 289p. [DS596.3 Yon]

Yuen, Choy Leng . Expansion of Japanese interests in Malaya, 1900-1941. 184p. Thesis (M.A.) - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1973. [D6*M 1973 4]

Yuen, Choy Leng . The Japanese community in Malaya before the Pacific war: its genesis and growth. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 9(2):163-179, 1978. [DS501 JSAS]

Yung, Regina Mabel Yuet Hing . Contributions of the Chinese to education in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States 1900-1941. 356p. Thesis (M.A.) - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1967. [LA1237 Yun]

Zahairin Abdul Rahman . Utusan Melayu: origin and history, 1939-1959. 88p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1988. [D6 *1988 23]

Zheng, Liren . Overseas Chinese nationalism in British Malaya, 1894-1941. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1997. 466p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cornell University, 1997. [DS596*UMI 6]