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Physical Education and Sports in Singapore Schools Journey Vol 6 I Issue 2 I July 2010 I ISSN 0219-8126 (Print) I ISSN 1793-9968 (Online) biblioasia 04 Jour ney A Story about the Past and Future 13 Physical Education and Sports in Singapore Schools Through the Last Millennium (Part I ) 19 Unveiling Secrets of the Past Through the Passage of Malay Scripts 38 CONTENTS DIRECTOR’S COLUMN EDITORIAL/PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT EDITOR SPOTLIGHT Wong Siok Muoi Ng Loke Koon Journey: A Story about the Past and Future 04 Jennifer Lew FEATURES CONTRIBUTORS Erik Holmberg Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew Wee Tong Bao 07 Kartini Saparudin 1872: The Fortune Vicky Gao of War Tragedy Michael Gilsenan A Christmas Celebration in Setefanus Suprajitno Tanjong Pagar Turns Violent Mohamed Pitchay Gani Bin Mohamed Abdul Aziz Bonny Tan DESIGN AND PRINT PRODUCTION 13 Orgnix Creatives Physical Education and Cover Photo: Chris Schmid Sports in Singapore Schools Through the Last Millennium All rights reserved. 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Please direct all correspondence to: National Library Board NEWS 100 Victoria Street #14-01 National Library Building Singapore 188064 Tel: +65 6332 3255 41 中国著名作家王蒙先生莅临我馆参观 Fax: +65 6332 3611 Email: [email protected] 43 Childhood Memories: Growing Up in the 1950s and 60s Website: www.nlb.gov.sg BiblioAsia is available for online browsing at: 45 Navigating a Sea of Resources to Find Hidden Treasures http://nl.sg and http://libguides.nl.sg DIRECTOR’S COLUMN he Spotlight for this issue falls on the speech by In “Unveiling Secrets of the Past through the Passage of George Yeo, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the Malay Scripts”, Mohamed Pitchay Gani unlocks the contents Tlaunch of the “Rihlah – Arabs in Southeast Asia” of Aksara: Menjejaki Tulisan Melayu (Aksara: The Passage exhibition and conference held on 10 April. This is a very of Malay Scripts) to reveal the secrets of the past in relation interesting speech that is peppered with delightful anecdotes to the Malay language and its scripts. This publication, of the Minister’s visit to the Hadhramaut in 2007 and stories recently published by the National Library Singapore, is that reveal the significant contributions of the Arab and other recommended to researchers, scholars and those who have traders to the Southeast Asian economy and society since a special interest in this subject. Scripts on various media the early 19th century. from the earliest years, ranging from inscriptions on stones, In conjunction with the Rihlah exhibition, two publications tree bark, palm leaves to name a few, are captured in the have been published, the first is a book on the "Hadhrami book, providing a visual feast not to be missed. Arabs across the Indian Ocean" and the second, a On the 14th of August 2010, Singapore will play host to the bilbliography entitled "The Hadhrami Arabs in Southeast inaugural Youth Olympics Games, welcoming young athletes Asia with special reference to Singapore". The bibliography from all over the world, competing in some 26 sporting includes various printed materials ranging from newspaper events while participating in a cultural and educational articles to monographs in English, and other languages such exchange programme. Wee Tong Bao, a librarian at the Lee as Arabic, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch and French. Kartini Kong Chian Reference Library maps out the early history Saparudin, a Reference Librarian with the Lee Kong Chian of physical education and sports training in Singapore Reference Library pens a bibliographic survey of known schools as a prelude to the Youth Olympic Games. The first intellectual discourses on the Hadhrami Arabs in Southeast of the two-part article features the educational curriculum Asia. In his review, Professor Michael Gilsenan from New and certification aspects of teacher training in both English York University considers this bibliography a milestone and medium and vernacular schools in the formative years. an essential tool for researchers conducting studies on the Last but not least, Singapore's longstanding relationship Hadhramis and their migrations over the centuries. with China is revisited by Vicky Gao, a Chinese Reference Erik Holmberg, our Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow writes Librarian with the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library. The about the less well known tragedy at the Fortune of War tavern collection review of Chinese materials in relation to major in 1872 involving European soldiers and sailors. The essay milestones in the diplomatic relations with China over the provides interesting details about the cause and aftermath last 20 years bears significance to the importance of bilateral of the tragedy highlighting the status of the working class ties between a small state and a big power in the region. population in colonial Singapore – a subject which deserves Happy reading! Do share with us your comments and more documentation. feedback. Ms Ngian Lek Choh Director National Library biblioasia • July 2010 3 4 Spotlight Journey A Story about the Past and Future An edited transcript of Minister George Yeo's opening speech at the launch of "Rihlah - Arabs in Southeast Asia" Exhibition and Conference on 10 April. Good morning, dear friends. I am delighted to be here to Throughout history, different groups have been plying join all of you for the launch of an exhibition and a conference this coastline, from Europe, all the way to China and Japan, on the Arabs in Southeast Asia. In fact, I have been looking to pre-Islamic days – in fact, probably to the beginning of forward to it. The theme is Rihlah – “Journey”. This is a story, history, when the sea was the original Internet, linking people not only about the past, but also about the future. together. It is a story about the Arabs, it is a story about the Dr N Varaprasad (Chief Executive, National Library Board) Indians, the Malabaris and the Cholas. It is the story about talked about the Omani dhow, which is setting sail from Cochin to Bugis and Acehnese peoples, a story about the southern Singapore this weekend. It set sail from Muscat in mid-February Chinese, about the Chettiar merchants, about Koreans and – a replica of an ancient dhow, which sank about 500 miles to Japanese. And in this century, this story will be retold in a the south of Singapore, near Belitung, in shallow waters and much bigger way. so quickly got covered and protected by sand. On board, there A few years ago, we celebrated the 600th anniversary were over sixty thousand pieces of porcelain from many kilns in of the first voyage of the Ming admiral, Zheng He, himself China, mostly Changsha. The motifs were Chinese, Buddhist, a Muslim eunuch, who travelled all the way to the Hejaz, Taoist, central Asian, Arabic, because that was the Age of Tang, and went to Mecca. Each can tell the story from a different of Buddhist Sriwijaya, of Nalanda, of the Abbasids. perspective, and each has learnt from the other in ways In mid-March, it arrived in Cochin. As it approached the that they sometimes are less conscious of themselves.
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