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1819 & Before : Singapore’s Pasts / Chong Guan Kwa.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (127 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789814951111
  • 9789814951425
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.57
LOC classification:
  • DS610.5 .A15 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Approaches to Singapore’s Past before 1819 -- 2. Issues and Approaches to Studying Singapore before 1819 -- 3. Regional Influences, International Geopolitics and Environmental Factors in the Rise and Demise of Temasek -- 4. The Mysterious Malay Jong and Other Temasek Shipping -- 5. The Orang Laut and the Negara Selat (Realm of the Straits) -- 6. Avoidance of Shipwreck in the Malay Annals: A Trope in Buddhist Narratives of Maritime Crossings -- 7. The Inception of Lion City -- 8. A Note on Amoghapāśa-Lokeśvara in Singapura -- 9. Portuguese and Dutch Records for Singapore before 1819: An Overview -- 10. Zheng He’s Navigation Methods and His Visit to Longyamen, Singapore -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Approaches to Singapore’s Past before 1819 -- 2. Issues and Approaches to Studying Singapore before 1819 -- 3. Regional Influences, International Geopolitics and Environmental Factors in the Rise and Demise of Temasek -- 4. The Mysterious Malay Jong and Other Temasek Shipping -- 5. The Orang Laut and the Negara Selat (Realm of the Straits) -- 6. Avoidance of Shipwreck in the Malay Annals: A Trope in Buddhist Narratives of Maritime Crossings -- 7. The Inception of Lion City -- 8. A Note on Amoghapāśa-Lokeśvara in Singapura -- 9. Portuguese and Dutch Records for Singapore before 1819: An Overview -- 10. Zheng He’s Navigation Methods and His Visit to Longyamen, Singapore -- Bibliography -- Index

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The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)