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A Sense of History:
a select bibliography on the history of Singapore

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Singapore: Social Life & Conditions

     
Abeysekera, Frederick George  & Abeysekera, Rita . The history of the Assemblies of God of Singapore. Singapore: Assemblies of God of Singapore, 1992. 536p. Covers the period from 1928 to 1992. [BV2595 Asg.A]

Arasaratnam Sinnappah . Indians in Malaysia and Singapore. Rev. ed. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1970. 239p. [DS595 Aaa]

Blake, Myrna L.  Kampong Eurasians in Singapore. Singapore: Dept. of Sociology, University of Singapore, 1973. 45p. [DS599.4 Bla]

Blythe, W. L.  The impact of Chinese secret societies in Malaya: a historical study. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. 570p. [HS315.1 Bly]

Braga-Blake, Myrna , ed. Singapore Eurasians: memories and hopes. Singapore: Published for Eurasian Association, Singapore, by Times Editions, 1992. 176p. [DS599.4 Sin]

Chang, Cynthia Yee Ping . Church and community: Roman Catholicism in Singapore. 200p. Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.) - Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1997. [HM15 *1998 53]

Cheah, Kam Kooi . The Hakka community in Singapore. 111p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Singapore, 1966. [DS599.4 Che]

Cheng, Lim Keak . Chinese deities, emigration and social structure in Singapore. Asian Culture, 21:38-49, June 1997. Examines the relationships between Chinese deities, emigration, settlement, development, and the impacts of temples on their social structure in the 19th century. [DS1 AC]

Chia, Jeanette Hwee Hwee . A history of the Javanese and Boyanese in Singapore. 64p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1993. [D6 *1993 6]

Chiang, Claire . The Hainanese community of Singapore. 102p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Sociology, University of Singapore, 1977. [HM15 *1977 28]

Chiew, Seen Kong . The Chinese in Singapore: from colonial times to the present. IN Suryadinata, Leo, ed. Southeast Asian Chinese: the socio-cultural dimension. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1995. Pp. 42-66. [DS523.4 Chi.Su]

Clammer, John . Straits Chinese literature: a minority literature as a vehicle of identity. In Tham, S. C., ed. Essays on literature and society in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1981. Pp. 287-302. [PN51 Ess]

Comber, Leon . Chinese secret societies in Malaya: a survey of the triad society from 1800 to 1900. Locust Valley, NY: Published for the Association for Asian Studies by J. J. Augustin, 1959. 324p. [HF315.1 Com.C]

Comber, Leon . Chinese temples in Singapore. Sngapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1958. 110p. [BL1950.12 Com]

Comber, Leon . An introduction to Chinese secret societies in Malaya. Singapore: D. Moore , 1957. 77p. [S315.1 Com.I]

Cresson, Leo . Rotary Club of Singapore, 1930-1980. Singapore: The Club, 1980. 42p. 
[HS2705 Rot.C]

Daus, Ronald . Portuguese Eurasian communities in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1989. 83p. [DS523.4 Eur.Da]

Dhinagaran Balakrishnan . The Ramakrishna Mission in Singapore 1928-1982. 86p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1989. [D6 *1989 8]

Diocese of Singapore.  Visions unfold. Singapore: Diocese of Singapore, 1999. 156p. Story of the growth of the Anglican Church in Singapore from 1909-1999. [BX5680.9 Vis]

Doraisamy, Theodore R. , ed. Forever beginning: one hundred years of Methodism in Singapore. Singapore: Methodist Church in Singapore, 1985. 2 vols. [BX8316.12 For]

Durai Raja Singam, S.  A hundred years of Ceylonese in Malaysia and Singapore 1867-1967. Kuala Lumpur, 1968. 433p. [DS594 Raj]

Ebert, Reginald Victor . The growth of the voluntary social services in Singapore. 193p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1959. [HV435.2 Ebe]

Ee-Chooi, Theresa . Father of charity ... and my father: Ee Peng Liang. Singapore: Raffles Editions, 1997. 574p. [DS599.51 Ee.E]

Elliott, Alan J. A.  Chinese spirit-medium cults in Singapore. London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1955. 179p. [BL1950.12 Ell]

Evers, Hans-Dieter ; Pavadarayan, Jayarani  & Schrader, Heiko . The Chettiar moneylenders  in Singapore. IN Evers, H.-D. & Schrader, H., eds. The moral economy of trade: ethnicity and developing markets. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 198-207. [HF3790.8 Mor]

Fitzgerald, C. P.  The southern expansion of the Chinese people: 'southern fields and southern ocean'. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1972. 230p. [DS732 Fit]

Freedman, Maurice . The Chinese in Southeast Asia: a longer view. IN Tilman, R. O., ed. Man, state, and society in contemporary Southeast Asia. New York: Praeger, 1969. Pp. 431-449. [DS526.7 Til]

Freedman, Maurice . Chinese lineage and society: Fukien and Kwangtung. London: Athlone Press, 1966. 207p. Provides a useful background study. [HQ668 Fre]

Freedman, Maurice . Kinship, local grouping and migration: a study in social alignment among the Chinese overseas. 687p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of London, 1956. Microfilm.

Freedman, Maurice . Lineage organization in Southeastern China. London: Athlone Press, 1958. 152p. Provides a useful background study. [HQ668 Fre]

 Freedman, Maurice  & Topley, Marjorie . Religion and social alignment among the Chinese in Singapore. Journal of Asian Studies, 21(1):3-23, 1961. [DS1 JAS]

Gamba, Charles . Chinese associations in Singapore. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 39(2):123-168, 1966. [DS591 RASMJ]

Gaw, Kenneth . Superior servants: the legendary Cantonese amahs of the Far East. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988. 177p. [HD6072.2 Chi.G]

Gibson-Hill, C. A.  The Orang Laut of Singapore river and the sampan panjang. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 42(1): 118-132, 1969. [DS591 RASMJ]

Greer, Robert McLeish . A history of the Presbyterian Church in Singapore. Singapore: Malaya Pub. House, 1956. 1 vol. [BV3320.2 Gre]

Hatley, R.   The overseas Indian in Southeast Asia: Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore. IN Tilman, R. O., ed. Man, state, and society in contemporary Southeast Asia. New York: Praeger, 1969. Pp. 450-466. [DS526.7 Til]

Ho, It Chong . The Cantonese domestic amahs: a study of a small occupational group of Chinese women. 162p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1958. 
[HD8039 Dom.H]

Jennings, Eric . The Singapore Turf Club. Singapore: Singapore Turf Club, 1970. 32p. 
[SF323 *Stc.J]

Johnson, Anne . The burning bush. Singapore: Dawn Publications, 1988. 298p. A history of the Presbyterian Church in Singapore. [BX9151.12 Joh]

Khaw, Patrick . The Singapore Recreation Club 1883-1963. 82p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1987. [D6 *1987 8]

Lee, Edwin . Community, family and household. IN Chew, Ernest C. T. & Lee, Edwin, eds. A history of Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 242-267. Covers the period from 1945 to the mid-seventies. [DS599.63 His]

Lee, Peter  & Chen, Jennifer . Rumah Baba: life in a Peranakan house. Singapore: National Heritage Board, 1998. 123p. [DS599.4 *Per.Le]

Lee, Poh Ping. Chinese society in nineteenth century Singapore. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1978. 139p. [DS599.61 Lep]

Lee, Poh Ping . Chinese society in nineteenth and early twentieth century Singapore: a socioeconomic analysis. Ann Arbor, MI: Xerox University Microfilms, 1975. 262p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cornell University, 1974. [DS599.61 Lep]

Liew, Clement . The Roman Catholic Church of Singapore, 1819-1910: from mission to church. 82p. Academic exercise--Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1994. [D6 *1994 14]

Lim, Geok Choo . The Chinese associations in Singapore: a case study of the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan. 93p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1985. [HM15 *1985 10]

Lim, Kay Tong . Cathay: 55 years of cinema. Singapore: Landmark Books for Meileen Choo, 1991. 191p. [PN1993.512 Lim]

Lim, Kay Tong  & Lee, Mary . Fighting TB: the SATA story (1947-1997). Singapore: Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 1997. 48p. [RC309.512 Lim]

Lim, Lu Sia . The Arabs of Singapore: a sociographic study of their place in the Muslim and Malay world of Singapore. 90p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1987. [HM15 *1987 10]

Lim, Meng Ah . The Hainanese of Singapore. 141p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1958. [DS599.4 Lim]

Loh, Keng Aun . The Anglican Church in Singapore Island, 1909-1959. 73p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1961. [BX5671.12 Loh]

Loh, Keng Aun . Fifty years of the Anglican Church in Singapore Island, 1909-1959. Singapore: Dept. of History, University of Singapore, 1963. 54p. [BX5671.12 Loh]

Mak, Lau Fong . The dynamics of Chinese dialect groups in early Malaya. Singapore: Singapore Society of Asian Studies, 1995. 217p. A collection of papers mostly published previously in various academic journals between 1978 and 1993. [DS595 Mak]

Mak, Lau Fong . The emergence and persistence of Chinese secret societies in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. 328p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Waterloo, 1977. Microfiche.

Mak, Lau Fong . The forgotten and the rejected community: a sociological study of Chinese secret societies in Singapore and West Malaysia. Singapore: Department of Sociology, University of Singapore, 1973. 120p. [HS315.12 Mak]

Mak, Lau Fong . The sociology of secret societies: a study of Chinese secret societies in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1981. 178p. [HS315.1 Mak]

Mak, Lau Fong . Subcommunal participation and leadership cohesiveness of the Chinese in nineteenth-century Singapore. Modern Asian Studies, 17(3):437-453, 1983. [DS1 MAS]

Mohamad Hatta Azad Khan . The Malay cinema (1948-1989): early history and development in the making of a national cinema. 359p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - School of Theatre and Film Studies, University of New South Wales, 1994. A history of the development of the Malay motion picture industry in Singapore and Malaysia. [Microfiche]

Nathan, Eze . The history of Jews in Singapore 1830-1945. Singapore: Herbilu Editorial & Marketing Services, 1986. 212p. [DS599.4 Nat]

Neville, Warwick . Populations dynamics and contemporary Singapore. IN Dwyer, D. J., ed. The city as a centre of change in Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1972. Pp. 96-107. [HT147 Cit]

Niew, Shong Tong . The distribution pattern of Chinese population in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Journal of Southeast Asian Researches, 7:95-125, 1971. [DS501 JSR]

Ng, Beng Yeong . Till the break of day: a history of mental health services in Singapore, 1841-1993. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2001. 312p. [RA790.712 Ng]

Nurzan Muhammad Wahie . The Arabs in Singapore. 72p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1960. [DS599.4 Nur]

Ong, Hue Sien . The social patterns of Hainanese communmity in Singapore: a case study of their associations. 117p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1996. [G58 *1996 10]

Ooi, Keat Gin . Domestic servants par excellence: the black and white amahs of Malaya and Singapore with special reference to Penang. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 65(2):69-84, 1992. [DS591 RASMJ]

Pan, Lynn , ed. The encyclopedia of the Chinese overseas. Singapore: Archipelago Press & Landmark Books, 1998. 399p. [DS732 Enc]

Phua, Kai Hong . The development of health services in Malaya and Singapore, 1867-1960. 401p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of London, 1987. Microfiche.

Purcell, Victor . The Chinese in Malaya. London: Oxford University Press, 1948. 327p. 
[DS595 Pur]

Purcell, Victor . The Chinese in modern Malaya. Singapore: Donald Moore, 1956. 63p. 
[DS595 Pur]

Purcell, Victor . The Chinese in Southeast Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1951. 801p. Covers the Chinese in Malaya and North Borneo (pp. 269-439). [DS523.4 Chi.Pu]

Purcell, Victor . The Chinese in Southeast Asia. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 623p. Covers the Chinese in Malaya, Singapore and North Borneo (pp. 223-381). 
[DS523.4 Chi.Pu]

Rajah, Gajaluckshumi . The Ceylon Tamils of Singapore. 101p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1958. [DS599.4 Raj]

Raman, Appu . A study of the Jewish community in Singapore. 98p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1958. [DS599.4 Ram]

Reutens, Lulin . The eagle & the lion : a history of the Singapore Island Country Club. Singapore: The Club, 1993. 186p. [HS3115.12 Sic*R]

Rosana Md. Jani . Hospitals and the healthcare system in Singapore 1819-1926. 79p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1990. [D6 *1990 17]

Rudolph, Jurgen . Reconstructing identities: a social history of the Babas in Singapore. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1998. 507p. [DS599.4 *Per.Ru]

Sandhu, Kernial S.  Indians in Malaya: some aspects of their immigration and settlement 1786-1957. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969. 346p. [DS595 San]

Sandhu, Kernial S.  Sikh immigration into Malaya during the period of British rule. IN Chen, J. & Tarling, N., eds. Studies in the social history of China and Southeast Asia: essays in memory of Victor Purcell. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. 335-354. 
[DS774 Che]

Sandhu, Kernial S.  Some aspects of Indian settlement in Singapore, 1819-1969. Journal of Southeast Asian History, 10(2):193-201, 1969. [DS501 JSAH]

Sandhu, Kernial S.  & Mani A., eds. Indian communities in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993. 983p. Has a substantial section on Singapore and Malaysia. [DS432.5 Ini]

Sarkissian, Margaret . Armenians in South-East Asia. Crossroads, 3(2/3):1-33, 1986. 
[DS501 JSA]

Saw, Swee Hock . The changing population structure in Singapore during 1824-1962. Malayan Economic Review, 9(1):90-101, 1964. [HC497.1 MER]

Saw, Swee Hock . Indian immigration in Malaya before the Second World War. Malaysia in History, 23:47-58, 1980. [DS591 MH]

Saw, Swee Hock . Population growth and control. IN Chew, Ernest C. T. & Lee, Edwin, eds. A history of Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 219-241. 
[DS599.63 His]  

Saw, Swee Hock . The population of Singapore. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1999. 255p. A comprehensive study of population trends and patterns in Singapore since 1819 covering topics such as population growth and structure, migration, mortality, marriage and divorce, population control, fertility, and the labour force. [HB3660.2 Saw]

Saw, Swee Hock . Singapore population in transition. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. 227p. Traces Singapore's population growth up to the mid-sixties. 
[HB3660.2 Saw]

Schweizer-Iten, Hans . One hundred years of the Swiss Club and the Swiss community of Singapore 1871-1971. Singapore: The Club, 1981. 453p. [HS3115.12 Sc*Schw]

Shahril Mohd. Shah . Jamiyah: religion and the state, 1930-1980. 201p. Thesis (M.A.) - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1996. [D6 *1996 32]

Sharom Ahmat . The Singapore Malay community. Journal of the History Society (University of Singapore), 1970-71: 39-46. [DS1 SHJ]

Sharp, Ilsa . The Singapore Cricket Club 1852-1985. Singapore: The Club, 1985. 200p. [GV928.12 Sha]

Siebel, Maureen . A study of the changes in the Malaysian population of Singapore, 1819-1959. 66p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Geography, University of Malaya, 1960. Microfilm. 

Singapore Turf Club. Fifty years at Bukit Timah: 1933-1983. Singapore: Singapore Turf Club, 1983. 16p. [SF323 *Stc.F]

Smith, T. E.  Immigration and permanent settlement of Chinese and Indians in Malaya, and the future growth of the Malay and Chinese communities. IN Cowan, C. D., ed. The economic development of South-East Asia. London: Allen & Unwin, 1964. Pp. 174-185. [HC412 Eco]

Sng, Bobby E. K.  In His good time: the story of the church in Singapore, 1819-1992. 2nd ed. Singapore: Graduates' Christian Fellowship, 1993. 375p. [BR1200.2 Sng]

Song, Ong Siang . One hundred years' history of the Chinese in Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984. 602p. Reprint. Originally published in London, 1902. [DS599.6 Son]

Tan, Nalla . Health and welfare. IN Chew, Ernest C. T. & Lee, Edwin, eds. A history of Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 339-356. [DS599.63 His]

Tan, Rosie Kim Neo . The Straits Chinese in Singapore: a study of the Straits Chinese way of life. 181p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1958. [DS595 Tan]

Tan, Ruby Yok Ching . Singapore's Nanan community and its associations: a study of social change and adaptation. 93p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1996. [G58 *1996 15]

Tan, Sumiko . The winning connection: 150 years of racing in Singapore. Singapore: Bukit Turf Club, 1992. 208p. [SF335.12 Tan]

Tan, Tai Yong . A history of the Singapore Khalsa Association 1927-1981. 97p. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1986. [D6 *1986 20]

Tan, Tai Yong . Singapore Khalsa Association. Singapore: Published for The Association by Times Books International, 1988. 84p. [HS81.12 Tan]

Tan, Tai Yong  & Major, Andrew J.  India and Indians in the making of Singapore. IN Yong, M. C. & Rao, V. B., eds. Singapore-India relations: a primer. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1995. Pp. 1-20. [HF1610.2 *Ind.S]

Teixeira, Manuel . The Portuguese missions in Malacca and Singapore 1511-1958. Lisboa: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1961-1963. 3 vols. [BV3320 Tei]

Thomas, Sara . The Malayalees of Singapore: a study into their customs, manner and mores which keep them a separate community. 158p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Social Studies, University of Malaya, 1956. [DS599.4 Tho]

Uchida, Naosaku . The overseas Chinese: a bibliographical essay based on the resources of the Hoover Institution. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1959. 134p. [DS732 Uch]

Uhde, Jan  & Ng Uhde, Yvonne . Latent images: film in Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 2000. 255p. [PN1993.512 Uhd]

Walsh, Barbara Ann . Forty good men: the story of the Tanglin Club in the island of Singapore 1865-1990. Singapore: The Club, 1991. 186p. [HS3115.12 Wal]

Wang, Gungwu . A short history of the Nanyang Chinese. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1959. 42p. [DS509.5 Wan]

Wee, Vivienne . The ups and downs of women's status in Singapore: a chronology of some landmark events (1950-1987). Commentary, 7(2/3):5-12, 1987. [DS599.1 C]

White, Timothy . When Singapore was Southeast Asia’s Hollywood. The Arts, 5:21-24, 1997. Traces the historical development of cinema in Singapore. [LG399 Nus.TA]

Willis, Jon . The Serani and the upper ten: Eurasian ethnicity in Singapore. 111p. Academic exercise - University of New South Wales, 1983. Microfiche.

Wong, James Y. K.  The church in Singapore. IN Athyal, Saphir, ed. Church in Asia today: challenges and opportunities.Singapore: Asia Lausanne Committeefor World Evangelization, 1996. Pp.288-311. [BR1065 Chu]

Wong, Jasmine Liang May . The English-speaking Brethren assemblies in Singapore, 1864-1986. Academic exercise - Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, 1997. 53p. 
[D6 *1997 28]

Wynne, Mervyn Llewelyn . Triad and tabut: a survey of the origin and diffusion of Chinese and Mohamedan secret societies in the Malay peninsula, A.D. 1800-1935. Singapore: Govt. Print. Off., 1941. 540p. [HS315.1 Wyn]

Yao, Souchou . Ethnic boundaries and structural differentiation: an anthropological analysis of the Straits Chinese in nineteenth century Singapore. Sojourn, 2(2):209-230, 1987. [HN763.5 SSA]

Yen, Ching Hwang . Class structure and social mobility in the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaya 1800-1911. Modern Asian Studies, 21(3):417-445, 1987. [DS1 MAS]

Yen, Ching Hwang . Gambling in the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaya, 1792-1911. Asian Culture, 14:47-56, 1990. [DS1 AC; DS509.5 Spe]

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.  Sexually transmitted diseases in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Singapore.

IN Lewis, M.; Bamber, S. & Waugh, M., eds. Sex, disease and society: a comparative study  of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. 177-202. [RA644 Aid.Sx]

Yeo, Katherine Lian Bee . Hawkers and the state in colonial Singapore: mid-nineteenth century to 1939. 208p. Thesis (M.A.) - Monash University, 1989. Microfiche.

Yeo, Katherine Lian Bee . Crimes and offences: court notebooks as a source for Singapore social history. Asian Culture, 14:209, 1990. [DS1 AC; DS509.5 Spe]

 

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