catalogue 2011
ARECA BOOKS is a rapidly-growing niche publisher based in Penang, Malaysia. Its ethos combines editorial intelligence, research rigour, elegant production and marketing flair, appealing to both popular readers and academic researchers of Malaysia and Southeast Asia. The imprint has a deserved reputation for pioneering works that celebrate genius loci and sense of a place. Its richly-illustrated publications are enduring contributions to the fields of cultural heritage, social history, visual arts and the environment.
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Abdur-Razzaq Lubis Khoo Salma Nasution Director Managing Director
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Lubis is a co-founder of Areca Salma is a co-founder of Areca Books and is responsible for Books and is responsible for press enquiries, promotions and overall coordination and book review copies. A researcher and commissions. A researcher,
author, he has written on the writer and heritage advocate, history of Perak, Selangor and she has written extensively on Kuala Lumpur and the Sumatran Penang’s history, culture and diaspora community. architecture.
Gareth Richards Yeap Ee Ban Editor Marketing Manager [email protected] [email protected] A former academic, Gareth is Yeap has overall administrative Areca Books’ editor, responsible responsibility for Areca Books, for manuscript appraisal, editing and particularly for marketing, and author liaison. As a writer, sales and trade orders, he has published on social including liaison with documentary photography, distributors and retailers.
international politics and civil society in southeast Asia.
Nazurah Hassan Goh Hun Meng Publishing Assistant Designer [email protected] [email protected] A graduate in architecture with Founder of his own company an interest in heritage, Nazurah Panca Design, Hun Meng is a provides administrative designer who specialises in all assistance at every stage of the aspects of book design for publication process, responsible Areca Books – cover design, for support with planning, layout, typesetting, image production and publicity. processing – through to final production.
CONTENTS
Authors 2 Penang 3
Perak 15 Children 17 The Straits Settlements 19
Malaysia 21 Miscellaneous 22
From Penang Through Gilded Doors Order Form 23 see page 7 Index 25
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Top row: Malcolm Wade, Ric Francis, Pindar Sidisunthorn. Middle Row: Reviews of Portraits of Penang: Little India, Perak Postcards 1890s –1940s, Hail, Penang! and The Sara Saga. Bottom row: Julia de Bierre, Christine Wu Ramsay, Ooi Cheng Ghee
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2 PENANG
Destined to become a classic of A richly illustrated and Malaysian social documentary comprehensive guide to photography Penang’s unique trees
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PORTRAITS OF PENANG: LITTLE INDIA HERITAGE TREES OF PENANG Ooi Cheng Ghee Simon Gardner, Pindar Sidisunthorn and Lai Ee May
During the late 1970s Penang was undergoing a fundamental
change with the loss of its free port status and a decline in its historic role as an entrepôt. Nowhere was more affected A celebration of 200 trees which form an integral part of the than the enclave known as Little India, home to generations natural, cultural and urban heritage of Penang. This unique of merchants, traders and waterfront labourers. Over the book covers a wide range of both forest and cultivated course of a year Ooi Cheng Ghee created a unique and species, each with a special story to tell. Taken as a whole remarkable photo essay on the life of Little India. The result Heritage Trees of Penang weaves a rich tapestry of the past is a portfolio of 160 outstanding black-and-white images, and present that demonstrates why Penang is such a published here for the first time. With compelling immediacy remarkable place. The unique value of each tree is explored and intimacy Ooi’s images provide a unique vision of people in terms of its contribution to the distinctive character of as ‘they worked, slept, played in the streets’. His Portraits of George Town and Penang Botanic Gardens, as well as its Penang: Little India is destined to become a classic of social spiritual or symbolic significance and its role in traditional documentary photography. lifestyles for food, medicine or other uses. Brief botanical descriptions are included, together with notes on ecology ‘This is not only a work of art; it is a personal statement by and horticultural requirements where appropriate. Richly an observant and intuitive artist, perceptive of the moods illustrated with 72 original watercolours and over 1,200 and sensitivities of a culture that is living’ – Andrew Sheng photographs, this invaluable guide is a beautiful and authoritative companion to Penang’s botanical inheritance. ‘A stunning photo essay, a powerful window on an era like few others. The photographs here breathe with a rare and Simon Gardner is a full-time researcher and writer. Pindar easy vigour, they are of their time, and yet they live now for Sidisunthorn is a full-time researcher, writer and illustrator. posterity, in the present’ – Gareth Richards They are co-authors of A Field Guide to Forest Trees of Northern Thailand (Bangkok, 2000) and Caves of Northern Ooi Cheng Ghee is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Thailand (Bangkok, 2006). Lai Ee May is a lecturer in biology Society, United Kingdom, and has held solo exhibitions at at Disted College, Penang and formerly a research officer at Galeri Seni Mutiara, Penang. He lives in Penang where he the Forest Research Institute Malaysia and Penang Botanic practises as a doctor. Gardens.
Areca Books, May 2011 Areca Books, July 2011 Photography / Ethnography Botany / Environment / Heritage Hardcover, 26.7 cm x 29.2 cm, xiv + 214 pages Hardcover, 21.0 cm x 26.5 cm, xiv + 397 pages, 160 black-and-white photographs includes index ISBN 978-967-5719-05-9 72 colour illustrations and 1,200 photographs Price RM100 ISBN 978-967-5719-06-6 Price RM100
3 Funny, poignant and The compelling autobiography insightful memoirs of Penang in of a noted journalist and diplomat 1930s across turbulent decades
HAIL, PENANG! THE SARA SAGA
George Bilainkin Manicasothy Saravanamuttu
In the late 1920s British colonial power in Malaya appeared The decades from the 1930s to the 1960s were hugely at its zenith. Run by a small political and commercial elite on important in the making of modern Asia. They saw the behalf of metropolitan interests, Malaya was the most tumultuous transition from colonial rule through the travails profitable of all Britain’s possessions and likely to remain of war to the eventual attainment of independent that way. Into this scene cam e a young journalist, George nationhood. Manicasothy Saravanamuttu – ‘Sara’ to all and Bilainkin – witty, confident, acerbic and iconoclastic – sundry – was a truly remarkable witness to and participant appointed by chance as editor of Penang’s lively English in these events. From his origins as the son of Ceylon’s most language newspaper The Straits Echo in 1929. Through a prominent political families this gripping memoir traces a series of engaging sketches and reflections he discloses a remarkable journey: cricket loving student at Oxford during wonderfully compelling portrait of Penang, its personalities the Great War, fearless editor of Penang’s English-language and its environs. Looking beyond the complacent colonial newspaper The Straits Echo, resilient internee during the façade Bilainkin grapples directly and indirectly with a wide Japanese Occupation, influential diplomat-at-large during range of topics that have strikingly modern echoes : the the height of the Cold War, and trustworthy confidant to the absurdities of soc ial snobbery; the position of women in great and the good. Written with great panache this revised society; and above all, the fraught nature of race relations. edition of the Sara Saga offers a unique glimpse into history This revised edition of Hail, Penang! offers an original and in the making. And more to this, it crystallizes Sara’s singular provocative glimpse of colonial society that is sure to character – a true ‘global soul’. captivate a new generation of readers. ‘This is a very pleasing book…. It draws a candid, full-length, ‘As a practitioner of the written word, Bilainkin was skilled, real life pen picture of its characterful author… [and] it and exceptionally lively. While his was a flawed personality, describes many of the important historic events which have it was a wonderfully alive human one. In terms of journalism occurred … as seen through the eyes of an always shrewd alone we will not see his like again. And with his Hail, observer of the drama’ – Malcolm Macdonald Penang! he earned his place in Malayan history’ – Ilsa Sharp Manicasothy Saravanamuttu was a legendary journalist and George Bilainkin was a distinguished foreign correspondent esteemed diplomat and the editor of Penang’s The Straits and author who served as editor of Penang’s The Straits Echo (1931–41 and 1945–47). Echo (1929–1930). Areca Books, 2010 Areca Books, 2010 Autobiography / Social History Memoirs / Social History Hardcover, 15 cm x 21.6 cm, 312 pages, includes index Hardcover, 15 cm x 21.6 cm, 304 pages, includes index 58 black-and-white illustrations 56 black-and-white illustrations ISBN 978-967-57190-3-5 ISBN 978-967-57190-2-8 Price RM40 Price RM40
ARECA REPRINTS ARECA REPRINTS
4 A school for girls and young An engaging social history teachers that changed the future of of a small but influential women in Penang community in Penang
GIVING OUR BEST: THE STORY OF ST GEORGE’S MORE THAN MERCHANTS: A HISTORY OF THE GIRLS’ SCHOOL, PENANG, 1885–2010 GERMAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY IN PENANG, Khoo Salma Nasution, Alison Hayes and 1800s–1940s Sehra Yeap Zimbulis Khoo Salma Nasution
St George’s Girls’ School is one of Penang’s most cherished Over one hundred years ago the port of Penang attracted institutions. Starting from a single classroom run by the German and Swiss traders to make their fortunes. This Anglican mission, St George’s became a modern government mercantile community had its own German association, school celebrated for its distinctive ‘white dress, red belt’ beautiful suburban residences and prominent trading offices look. Today it is the first school in Penang to achieve along the harbour front. They made remarkable national-level high performance status. Giving Our Best contributions to public life, engineering, architecture, looks at 125 years of tradition in which pioneering women photography and postcard publishing. More Than Merchants educators transformed St George’s into an innovative relates the social history of the German-speaking community establishment which, in turn, produced generations of brave in Penang through the stories of individuals, families and young girls inculcated with a positive love of learning and a companies. It also features famous visitors to Penang like determination to succeed. Drawing on archival materials, Karl May, Count Fritz von Hochberg, Hans Sturzenegger and local histories, personal reminiscences and school Herman Hesse. The SMS Emden's daring raid on the Penang yearbooks, this richly illustrated study traces the harbour during the First World War is recounted as well as considerable achievements of the school, combining it with Penang's role as a secret U-boat base during the Second a collective biography of women who, both as teachers and World War. students, gave their best to school and society. This highly readable and socially relevant book will appeal to all those ‘Khoo has also successfully conveyed their courage and interested in the history of education and the development fortitude as merchants in facing the fate that befell them of Penang. and their enterprises caused by the international repercussions of European politics’ – Marina Emmanuel Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and heritage advocate. Her recent publications include Heritage Houses of Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and heritage Penang (2009) and Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008). Alison advocate. Her recent publications include Heritage Houses of Hayes is a native of Dundee, Scotland and loves life in Penang (2009) and Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008). George Town. Sehra Yeap Zimbulis grew up in Penang and has recently returned to her home town after many years. Areca Books, 2006 She has a degree in English and psychology. Social History Hardcover, 21.6 cm x 21.6 cm, 128 pages Areca Books, 2010 170 black-and-white and colour photographs Social History / Education ISBN 978-983-42834-1-5 Hardcover, 25.5 cm x 25.5 cm, 231 pages Price RM60 500 black-and-white and colour illustrations ISBN 978-967-57190-4-2 Price RM100
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A lively and frank memoir of the The history of Penang Chinese vicissitudes of a well-connected community visually charted over Penang family two centuries
DAYS GONE BY: GROWING UP IN PENANG THE CHINESE IN PENANG: A PICTORIAL HISTORY Christine Wu Ramsay Tan Kim Hong
Christine Wu Ramsay grew up in the British Straits Spanning over two hundred years, this illustrated history Settlement of Penang which is a part of present-day describes the early immigration and population growth, Malaysia. Her account begins with the arrival of her great- social organisations, economic activities, political grandfather, Leong Fee – a poor Hakka migrant from China orientation, schools and education, as well as religious life of who rose to become the owner of the famous ‘Tambun the Chinese in Penang, Malaysia. The book contains around Mines’ in Perak and a Vice-Consul of China in Penang. 700 illustrations, including vintage photographs, epigraphic Brought up by her grandparents and cared for by black-and- materials, historical documents and maps, making it a visual white amahs, Christine enjoyed an idyllic childhood – feast for those interested in the history of the Chinese affected but not marred by the Japanese Occupation and overseas. declining family fortunes – up till her departure for Australia in 1957. Using over a hundred photographs from her family ‘painstakingly compiled over the years to sketch what Tan album, she recounts a way of life and philosophy where the describes as “a chequered contour of the social milieu, practice of polygamy and the ownership of bond maids were economic endeavours, political orientations, educational accepted facets of life. efforts, and religious life of the Penang Chinese”’ – Lee Kam Hing ‘A patriarch makes a fortune in tin mining and the next two generations squander it .... This classic Malaysian Chinese Tan Kim Hong is a local historian residing in Penang. He has family saga makes a compelling biography’ – Choong Kwee published and edited works on Chinese Malaysian politics Kim and socio-economic change in Penang including histories of the Labour Party of Malaya, the Goddess of Mercy Temple, ‘A lively anecdotal style … a first-hand perspective’ – the Chinese Town Hall and the Chinese Chamber of Leslie A.K. James Commerce.
Christine Wu Ramsay is a writer and photographer with a Areca Books, 2007 PhD in organic chemistry from Melbourne University. Her Social History other publications include Captured in Time: Journeys with Hardcover, 26 cm x 29 cm, 237 pages includes bibliography my Camera. About 700 black-and-white and colour illustrations Bi-lingual (English and Chinese) Areca Books, 2007 ISBN 978-983-42834-7-6 Memoirs / Autobiography Price RM120 Hardcover, 17.3 cm x 24.5 cm, 175 pages Black-and-white and colour illustrations ISBN 978-983-42834-6-9 Price RM50
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A visual treat and lyrical essay The cultural history of a on Penang’s many architectural cosmopolitan seaport through its splendours remarkable dwellings
PENANG THROUGH GILDED DOORS HERITAGE HOUSES OF PENANG Julia de Bierre and James Bain Smith Khoo Salma Nasution and Halim Berbar
Penang: Through Gilded Doors is an inspirational Penang has been the meeting place of cultural currents from introduction to one of South-East Asia’s most culturally India and China, as well as insular and mainland Southeast diverse destinations. Superbly photographed, the book Asia. As a key commercial port of the British East India focuses in particular on the Malaysian island’s wealth of Company from 1786, it was drawn into the international heritage buildings and the fascinating human stories behind trading networks. Ship captains and seafaring merchants their existence. chose to retreat to this strategically situated island, while miners and planters who made their fortunes in ‘De Bierre’s efforts in taking the reader behind the many neighbouring lands built their incredible homes here. gilded doors one sees on shophouses, temples and mansions Penang’s capital, the port city of George Town, is now a in Penang are meticulous. She not only offers a magical World Heritage Site, reflecting its rich history, vernacular “tour” of Penang’s famed sights, but gives detailed insights architecture and its own unique version of multiculturalism. into the life of the island’s people’ – Marina Emmanuel Written by Penang’s foremost heritage advocate and illustrated with professional photography this book ‘Gorgeous and lavishly illustrated book’ – Lonely Planet celebrates the distinctive architecture and lifestyle of the heritage houses of Penang. ‘a unique blend of narrative and photographic record’ – Penang Heritage Trust ‘Khoo’s words are brought alive in the book by the award- winning Berbar’ – Marina Emmanuel Julia de Bierre was born in Penang and grew up here. She writes for leading design and decoration periodicals and Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and heritage currently runs Galerie Huit in the World Heritage Site of advocate. Her recent publications include More Than Arles, France. James Bain Smith is an international artist and Merchants (2006) and Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008). Halim photographer with a parallel career in the decorative arts. Berbar studied photography and journalism before working De Bierre and Bain Smith are co-authors of the best-selling with leading press and photo agencies in France. Restoration Recipes. Marshall Cavendish, 2009 Areca Books, 2008, second edition Architecture / Heritage Architecture / Heritage Softcover, 22 cm x 24 cm, 128 pages Hardcover, 21.5 cm x 25.5 cm, 152 pages 141 colour photographs Over 500 colour photographs ISBN 978-981-23280-6-9 ISBN 978-983-42834-2-3 (English edition) Price RM86 ISBN 978-983-42834-3-1 (French edition) Price RM80
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Still the best guide to the Evocative images of Penang’s historically-rich streetscapes of places and way of life through George Town historic picture postcards
STREETS OF GEORGE TOWN, PENANG: AN PENANG POSTCARD COLLECTION 1899–1930s ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PENANG’S CITY STREETS & Khoo Salma Nasution and Malcolm Wade HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS Khoo Su Nin (Khoo Salma Nasution)
George Town, Penang: historic city of terracotta roofs, In the early twentieth century, from a bustling port teeming effusive stucco ornamentation and friendly five-foot ways, with travellers and migrants, thousands of postcards of where diverse local cultures survive and multiply and Penang were sent off into the world. These picture traditional festivals are celebrated. Streets of George Town is postcards gave vivid impressions of Penang’s centre of a serious guide to things visible and invisible. The traditional commerce and administration, its street and suburbs, its hill neighbourhoods and urban villages which make up the city resort and its beaches. With over 700 postcards compiled by are carefully explored. In the wealth of surviving built Malcolm Wade, this is the largest collection of prewar heritage are the stories of those who have contributed to Penang postcards ever published. The local historical context the prosperity of the trading settlement, from Penang's is presented with authority and empathy by Khoo Salma founding settlers to latter-day personalities. In these streets Nasution. This collection serves as a testimony to Penang’s is the living history of a uniquely complex multicultural rich heritage, as well as visual resources for researchers, society. Richly illustrated with over 280 photos, this guide is artists, collectors, and all those who love Penang. meant for every visitor who has ever enjoyed George Town's charming streetscapes and every Penangite who wishes to ‘Penang Postcard Collection 1899-1930s is by far the most rediscover his or her own home town. ambitious study of the subject to date. Serious collectors or scholars of postcards (deltiologists, as they are called), as ‘the gold standard for history-freighted local guide books … it well as casual readers, are sure to delight in this richly should be compulsory reading for a visitor’ – David Jardine illustrated and beautifully designed volume. Packed with fascinating historical detail, this book is a must-have’ – Peter ‘Streets of George Town, Penang … helped rekindle civic Zabielskis interest in documenting and preserving the island's rich architectural heritage’ – Katherine Tanko Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and heritage advocate. Her recent publications include Heritage Houses of ‘An excellent book ... enthralling reading as it recalls the Penang (2009) and Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008). Malcolm vibrant and chaotic history of some of George Town’s Wade was a soldier, teacher and technical author and is an founding families’ – John Lyon avid collector of Malayan postal history and postcards.
Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and heritage Areca Books, 2003 advocate. Her recent publications include Heritage Houses of Visual history / Heritage Penang (2009) and Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008). Hardcover 26 cm x 29 cm, 304 pages Over 700 black-and-white and colour postcards Areca Books, 2007, fourth edition (first edition, 1993) ISBN 978-983-28850-0-0 Architecture / Heritage Price RM120 Softcover, 15.5 cm x 22 cm, 189 pages Over 280 colour photos ISBN 978-983-98860-0-9 Price RM35
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The endearing and definitive The well-preserved poetical history of Penang’s oldest public traditions of the Baba community transportation system A TAPESTRY OF BABA POETRY (CD attached) PENANG TRAMS, TROLLEYBUSES & RAILWAYS: Johny Chee MUNICIPAL TRANSPORT HISTORY 1880s–1963
Ric Francis and Colin Ganley
Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia Penang Hokkien is, by and large, Baba Hokkien. It differs to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and from the original Hokkien dialect in terms of the trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established pronunciation of certain words, its intonation and some its own electrical supply, it took over the tram service and aspects of its vocabulary. Varieties of it are either spoken or started the electric trams in George Town in 1906. This gave understood as far as Phuket in Thailand and Medan in the local population excellent public transport around Indonesia; and widely used by the Hokkien-speaking George Town, with one line going up to Ayer Itam. In the communities stretching from Perlis through Kedah to Taiping late 1920s the municipality replaced trams with trolley- in Perak. This collection brings together a wide sample of the buses, experimenting for a while with re-conditioned rhymes, ditties and poetry that illuminate the fascinating double-deckers from London Transport! culture of the Baba community.
‘a “must read” for fans of public transport in the colonial Interesting yet illuminating, era.… A fascinating and well-produced book, which Classic entertaining yet enlightening- Bus readers whose interests include “abroad” will enjoy’ – a literary encounter to feast the eyes. David Hope A book meant for everybody – Of all ages and standing in society. ‘what is truly amazing is the amount of work that went into – Tan Gin Soon creating this book. They dug up records of tram, trolleybus and bus fleets, route maps, old bus tickets and newspaper It is not just poetry in motion but Penang Hokkien in action. cuttings and put them together so effectively’ – Leong One is treated not only to a repertoire of Baba rhymes but an Shen-Li ensemble of quaint words and expressions peculiar to the Penang Baba tradition’ – Michael Cheah Ric Francis is the co-founder of the Perth Electric Tramways and member of the Western Australian Omnibus Group Inc Johny Chee is a former English teacher with a deep-rooted and Electric Trolleybus Group. He is also the author of love for his ancestral culture. He is also the mover behind a
Kalgoorlie Transport History 1901–2001. Colin Ganley is a group of dancers who call themselves the Nyonya Belles. member of several British train and bus preservation societies. Johny Chee, 2008 third edition (first edition, 2006)
Literature / Culture
Areca Books, 2006 Softcover, 14.7 cm x 21.6 cm, 137 pages Social history / Transportation Black-and-white and colour illustrations, CD attached Hardcover, 21 cm x 26 cm, 112 pages ISBN 978-983-42912-1-1 125 black-and-white and 64 colour photos Price RM37 ISBN 978-983-42834-0-7 Price RM50
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Innovative scholarly essays on the Marvellously readable, compact port of Penang and its trade and well-illustrated account of connections early Penang
PENANG AND ITS REGION PENANG UNDER THE EAST INDIA COMPANY: Yeoh Seng Guan, Loh Wei Leng, Khoo Salma Nasution 1786-1858 and Neil Khor (eds) Andrew Barber
From its beginnings in the late eighteenth century, the This is a fully illustrated hardback coffee-table book that vibrant colonial port of Penang attracted a diverse range of charts the early years of Penang’s development, from the peoples, en abled pioneering commercial enterprises, and landing of Francis Light in 1786 until the British government fomented inter -ethnic collaboration and inter-cultural assumed control of the Straits Settlements in 1858. The borrowings. The island came to be known as the ‘Pearl of book explores the background to the East India Company’s the Orient’ and for many travellers it was their first port of decision to establish a settlement on Penang and the call in Southeast Asia. In the early nineteenth century, difficulties encountered with the Sultanate of Kedah. It then
Singapore displaced Penang in international trade but the charts Penang’s steady development, looking at its people, island remained a major focus of regional trade. For this economy, administration and architecture. Penang Under reason, the story of Penang ’s relations with the Malay the East India Company is lavishly illustrated and designed Peninsula and other parts of Southeast Asia reveal a great for the lay reader and student alike. All profits from sales go deal about conditions within the region. This collection to the Lighthouse Children’s Home. discusses the personal networks that have linked prominent individuals in Penang with neighbouring areas and considers ‘the book showcases revived pictures that will excite history the position of the island as a whole within the Southeast buffs, and provides an easy-to-digest narrative on Penang Asian region. which should interest more than the general scholar’ – Ooi Kee Beng ‘Penang and Its Region is a must-read for those who not only wish to “deconstruct” Penang’s past but also reconstruct its Andrew Barber is a former British diplomat who currently future ’ – Johan Saravanamuttu lives and works in Kuala Lumpur. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and is author of Penang at War (2010) and Yeoh Seng Guan is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts and Malaya, the Making of a Nation – 1510–1957 (2008). Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus. Loh Wei Leng was formerly professor in the History Department, AB&A, 2009 University of Malaya. Her research interests include the History economic, business and maritime history of Malaysia. Khoo Hardcover, 22 cm x 25.5 cm, 159 pages Salma Nasution is a Penang-based heritage advocate and Black-and-white and colour illustrations local historian. She con ducted research in South Thailand as ISBN 978-983-43372-2-3 an Asian Public Intellectual Fellow of the Nippon Foundation. Price RM110
Neil Khor is programme director with Think City.
NUS Press, 2009
History Softcover, 15 cm x 23 cm, 284 pages Black -and-white illustrations ISBN 978-997-16942-3-4 Price RM45
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A fun, practical word list of the Light, practical and easy-going most widely spoken dialect in introductions to the Penang Penang island Hokkien language
ENGLISH –PENANG HOKKIEN POCKET DICTIONARY LEARN TO SPEAK ... PENANG HOKKIEN DIALECT
Luc de Gijzel Tan Choon Hoe
Tan Choon Hoe, 2004. Second edition (first edition, 2001)
Softcover, 11 cm x 18.5 cm, 134 pages ISBN 978-983-40774-0-2 Price RM20
MARI BELAJAR BERTUTUR ... LOGHAT HOKKIEN PULAU PINANG
Tan Choon Hoe
Penang Hokkien is a unique dialect that is widely spoken in Penang . Settlers from the Fujian Province in Southern China broug ht their language to the former British trading port. In this melting pot of l anguages and cultures, Hokkien has been exposed to a diversity of influences. The enriched vocabulary and colourful local expressions give Penang Hokkien its distinct character. The English–Penang Hokkien Pocket
Dictionary provides the tourist, student and native speaker
with a practical reference for Penang Hokkien words and phrases . With over 4,000 entries and supplementary chapters on words by theme, phrases and grammar, this Tan Choon Hoe, 2006 accessibl e dictionary will prove invaluable to anyone wishing to speak Penang Hokkien. Language ‘it was a proud achievement for a foreigner to release a Softcover, 11 cm x 18.5cm, 152 pages dictionary in Hokkien which is synonymous with Penang’ – ISBN 978-983-40774-1-6 Choong Sim Poey Price RM18
A factory manager by profession, Luc de Gijzel moved to PENANG HOKKIEN DIALECT FOR PENANGITES AND Pen ang with his wife in 2004 and his romance with the TOURISTS dialect started when he attended basic Hokkien lessons at Penang YMCA. Tan Choon Hoe
Luc de Gijzel, 2009
Language
Softcover, 10.8 x 16 cm, 211 pages ISBN 978-983-44646-08 Price RM22
Tan Choon Hoe, 2008
Softcover, 11 cm x 18.5 cm, 136 pages
Language
ISBN 978-983-40774-3-3
Price RM23
Tan Choon Hoe was born, bred and educated in Penang. He is an English language and Penang Hokkien dialect tutor.
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The most complete study of Your gastronomic guide to Penang’s Chinese popular religion Penang’s best restaurants and food and rituals courts
PENANG: RITES OF BELONGING IN A MALAYSIAN GREAT DINING IN PENANG 2 CHINESE COMMUNITY Helen Ong Jean DeBernardi
T he British established George Town on Penang island in Are you planning to visit Penang, and historical George 1786 and encouraged Chinese merchants and labourers to Town, UNESCO World Heritage site? Then you’ll no doubt be migrate to this vibrant trading port. In the multicultural trying all the fantastic food up here, so don’t forget to bring urban settlement that developed, the Chinese immigrants this book along because Great Dining in Penang 2 will guide organi sed their social life through community temples like you to some of the best restaurants and food courts in town. the Guanyin Temple (Kong Hok Palace) and their secret In response to popular demand, this is the follow-up to sworn brotherhoods. These community associations Helen Ong’s first book and gives you the low-down on more assumed exceptional importance precise ly because they outlets to visit. Like the first, it is packed with contact details, were a means to establish a social presence for th e Chinese information and beautiful, mouth-watering photographs to immigrants, to organise their social life and to display their whet your appetite. The book also includes the helpful ‘Fast e conomic prowess. The Confucian ‘cult of memory’ also took Facts’ column, presented in a new, easy-to-understand on new meanings in the early twentieth century as a form o f format. There are even some great recipes for you to try racial pride. In twentieth -century Penang, religious practices out! and events continued to draw the boundaries of belonging in the idiom of the sacred. ‘Freelance writer and food reviewer Helen Ong has come up
with a book to show that the island has many more culinary
‘[An] engaging and insightful book on Penang Chinese delights to offer apart from hawker food … nicely illustrated popular religion’ – Sojourn and attractive’ – The Star
‘Rarely ca n one say of a scholarly work, “this book is hard to Helen Ong is the Star Sunday Metro’s regular columnist who put down” ... . This fascinating, superbly researched used to teach Malaysian cooking in France and also wrote a interdisciplinary study will reward all readers’ – Religious regular beauty column for newspapers in Britain.
Studies Review Helen Ong Publications, 2010
‘DeBernardi’s overall analysis of religion as an historically Culture / Food situated s ocial process is commendable’ – Pacific Affairs Softcover, 18.1 cm x 25.4 cm, 160 pages Jean DeBernardi is professor of anthropology at the Full colour illustrations University of Alberta. She studied linguistic and cultural ISBN 978-983-43915-1-5 anthropology at the University of Chicago and completed Price RM28 two years of ethnographi c fieldwork in Penang.
NUS Press , 2009
Social history / Anthropology
Softcover, 15.3 cm x 22.7 cm, 336 pages
Illustrations in black -and-white ISBN 978-9971-69-416-6 Price RM49
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How Sun Yat Sen planned the A companion to the award-winning Huanghuagang Uprising from film about Sun Yat Sen’s
Penang revolutionary period in Penang
SUN YAT SEN IN PENANG ROAD TO DAWN: FILMING IN PENANG Khoo Salma Nas ution Goh Mai Loon and Khoo Salma Nasution
As a young revolutionary, Sun Yat Sen travelled widely and A souvenir album on the making of the film Road To Dawn, lived amongst the Chinese communities abroad, including based on the story of Sun Yat Sen as a revolutionary in Japan, North America and Southeast Asia. He mobili sed the Penang in 1910. It was the first China-produced movie to be overseas Chinese with th e dream of saving the Chinese filmed in Malaysia and was shot entirely on location in nation. This book tells the story of how the Second Penang. The grand premiere was held in the Great Hall of Guangzhou Uprising, a turning point of the 1911 Chinese the People in Beijing on 28 June 2008. Starring Taiwanese Revolution, was planned from a place 2,400 km away — in actor Winston Chao as Sun Yat Sen and Angelica Lee Sin Chet Penang in present -day Malaysia. as a fictional Penang Nyonya character. Cast and crew from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. The film won the
‘Many articles have been written about Sun Yat Sen, Hua Biao Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer some of which discuss his time in Penang. However, Scriptwriter (Maezi); Shanghai International Film Festival details of his time in George Town have not been Media Award for Best Actor (Winston Zhao) and Most collected and discussed in one single volume before in Promising Newcomer (Wu Yue). a way that makes the story accessible to the common
Penangite. For this, Khoo Salma Nasution’s finely Goh Mai Loon is the project initiator and location producer produced book deserves much credit’ – Penang Economic of Road To Dawn. Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, Monthly publisher and heritage advocate. Her recent publications include Heritage Houses of Penang (2009) and Sun Yat Sen in Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and heritage Penang (2008). advocate. Her best-selling publications include Streets of George Town, Penang (1993), Penang Postcard Collection Areca Books, 2007 (2003), Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008) and Heritage Houses of History / Film Penang (2009). Soft cover, 21 X 29 cm, 56 pages Over 200 colour photographs Areca Books, 2008 Bi-lingual (English and Chinese) Politics / Social History ISBN 978-983-42834-5-2
Softcover, 12cm X 20.5cm, 128 pages Price RM25
Over 120 colour and black-and-white illustrations ISBN 978 -983-42834-8-3 (English)
ISBN 978-983-42834-9-0 (Simplified Chinese)
ISBN 978 -967-57190-0-4 (Traditional Chinese) Price RM30
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A temple restoration revealing the history of a clandestine organisation
BESTOWING LUCK AND PROSPERITY ON ALL
Tan Lye Hoe
Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple was founded in 1844 for the worship of Toa Pek Kong, patron saint o f the Kian Teik Tong. This wa s the Hokkien secret society that challenged the Ghee Hin secret society in the Penang Riots of 1867. This commemorative publication celebrates the completion of the temple restoration. It contains a brief history and timeline of the temple, researched from land titles and other historical documents. It also provides a list of festivals, trustees, and aff iliated associations, offering insights into nineteenth century Hokkien socio-religious organisations in Penang.
‘The book is extensively illustrated with photos of the archaeology and restoration process, building plan s, temple architecture, calligraphic plaques, altars and ceremonies.
Meticulously researched, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Chinese religions, Overseas Chinese traditions and Penang history’ – Khoo Salma Nasution
Tan Lye Hoe was a lecturer at the Conservatory of Fine Arts, actively involved with the Penang Watercolour Society, the Penang Art Society and the Penang Teachers' Art Circle.
Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple, 2007 History / Culture / Religion Hardcover, 21.3 cm x 30.3 cm, 143 pages Over 150 colour illustrations Bi -lingual (English and Chinese)
ISBN 978-983-43661-2-4
Price RM100
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PERAK
Richly nostalgic, a must for any Critically acclaimed study of Kinta serious postcard collector or Perak Valley as a catalyst in the early enthusiast economic growth of Malaysia
PERAK POSTCARDS: 1890s–1940s KINTA VALLEY: PIONEERING MALAYSIA’S MODERN Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Malcolm Wade and DEVELOPMENT Khoo Salma Nasution Khoo Salma Nasution and Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
Once the premier state of the Federated Malay States, Perak Kinta Valley in Perak is the ancient home of the indigenous pioneered in tin mining, rubber, roads and railways in Senoi and the realm of the Datoh Panglima Kinta and other Malaya. In the early twentieth century, Europeans and Malay chiefs. The Kinta River flows through a dramatic valley Asians venturing into this frontier country brought picture of forested hills, limestone outcrops and their wondrous postcards to send home to family, friends and pen pals all caves. After British intervention, this secluded basin was over the world. Perak Postcards 1890s–1940s represents the exploited for the secrets of its earth – tin. This book details largest collection ever assembled into one volume, with the development, from the late nineteenth century, of the more than 500 picture postcards contributed by several many charming towns of Kinta. It charts the rise of Ipoh as collectors. Practically all the major Perak districts and towns the ‘hub of Malaya’, and the vicissitudes of tin and rubber are featured – Ipoh, Taiping, Kuala Kangsar, Telok Anson and booms and busts. The making of Kinta, once the wealthiest the mining towns of Kinta. district in British Malaya, epitomises the bitter-sweet story of the country’s birth into the modern era. ‘This is a beautifully produced book, with many postcards never seen before. If you want a first-class record of Perak's ‘Kinta Valley has established a bench-mark for the writing of past then this is where you should invest your money. It local history in Malaysia.… Indeed, it is in the descriptions of beats any other volume produced so far’ – IpohWorld small towns – truly “local history” – that the strength of their research is most evident’ – Barbara Watson Andaya ‘the authors’ expertise is brought to bear on every image, each one carefully sourced, dated and historically ‘This handsomely produced book provides the fullest account interpreted…. like a rolling story that you can dip in and out ever written, or likely to be written, on the history of the of at your leisure' – Ilsa Sharp Kinta Valley’ – H.S. Barlow
‘it covers all that any could wish for regarding our heritage’ – Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and heritage Ian Anderson advocate. Her recent publications include Heritage Houses of Penang (2009) and Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008). Abdur- Abdur-Razzaq Lubis and Khoo Salma Nasution are the Razzaq Lubis is a researcher and writer whose recent authors of the critically acclaimed Kinta Valley, Pioneering publications include Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak: Malaysia’s Modern Development (2005) and Raja Bilah and 1875–1911 (2003) and Perak Postcards 1890s–1940s (2010). the Mandailings in Perak: 1875-1911 (2003). Malcolm Wade, a stalwart of the Malaya Study Group, has written an Perak Academy, 2005 authoritative postal history of Perak. Social History Hardcover, 26 cm x 29 cm, 428 pages Areca Books, 2010 607 black-and-white and colour illustrations Visual History / Heritage ISBN 978-983-42113-0-9 Hardcover, 25.8 cm x 28.6 cm, 336 pages Price RM150 575 postcards including a few stationeries and real photos
ISBN 978-967-5719-01-1
Price RM120
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An unique and enlightening An essential scholarly resource narrative on the Mandailings in about the foremost tin-mining town Perak in Malaya
RAJA BILAH AND THE MANDAILINGS IN PERAK: IPOH WHEN TIN WAS KING 1875 –1911 Ho Tak Ming Abdur -Razzaq Lubis and Khoo Salma Nasution
The transformation of Perak, Malaysia, in the late Ipoh did not become the capital of Perak until more than nineteenth century was an unlikely collaboration between seventy years after its founding, and even then not by the the Malay sultans, their British advisers and dynamic migrant deliberation of her founders or administrators but by the fiat groups, brought together by the ‘tin rush’. Mandailing of a brief wartime occupier. Ipoh was not even the capital of migrants from northwestern Sumatra were among the the Kinta district, although within twenty years of its ‘foreign Malays’ who played a key role in the new existence the town had far outstripped the district’s administration and socio -economic development of Perak. administrative headquarters. In spite of being sidelined as an As pioneer miners and agriculturalists, adventurous ‘official town’ by the colonial government, Ipoh could still be Mandailings opened settlements all over Kinta Valley and considered the most favoured of Malayan towns. Tin gave contributed to the growth of many towns. This story focuses Ipoh more millionaires than any other Malayan town; it gave on Raja Bilah, who succeeded the legendary Raja Asal as the her confidence and vibrancy; it gave her a soul. Ipoh When undisputed leader of the Mand ailings. As a British-appointed Tin Was King is the story of Ipoh's Golden Age, an era that is penghulu , revenue-collector and peacekeeper, Raja Bilah now shrouded in the mists of time, but which present-day harnessed the energies of the Chinese miners as well as Ipohites can take pride in and draw inspiration from. Sumatran migrants to make Papan the leading tin -mining town of its day. ‘Dr Ho’s book contains interesting stories of well-known tin- miners of the past and present century’ – The Star ‘A closely woven story in which the warp is the ongoing narratives of activities, personal and collective, and the weft ‘The publication of this book promises a wealth of in found in the ties of authority and kinship within the information for all Ipoh residents, currently residing here or Mandailing settlements of Papan and nearby villages’ – once upon a time. The information is so comprehensive you J.M. Gullick might even discover you are related to one of the names in
the book’ – Ipoh Echo ‘an important watershed in the local and national historiography of Malaysia, in terms of the themes it addresses, the array of materials it has utilised and its Ho Tak Ming is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine of presentation’ – Koh Keng We Malaysia and a research fellow of the Perak Academy. His publications include Doctors Extraordinaire (2000), Doctors Abdur-Razzaq Lubis is an independent scholar and a sixth in the East (2001) and Generations: The Story of Batu Gajah generation Malaysian Mandailing whose ancestors migrated (2005). to the peninsula in the aftermath of the Padri War (1816– 1837). Khoo Salma Nasution is a writer, publisher and Perak Academy, 2009 heritage advocate. Her recent publications include Heritage Social History Houses of Penang (2009) and Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008). Hardcover, 16 cm x 23.5 cm, 724 pages, includes index 230 black-and-white illustrations Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS), 2003 ISBN 978-983-42500-2-7 Social History / Culture Price RM120 Hardcover, 21 cm x 30 cm, 278 pages 155 black-and-white illustrations ISBN 978-967-99483-1-5 Price RM60
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CHILDREN
Preserving the values of the The inimitable house lizard as a traditional kampung house in the part of Malaysian life, a story for face of homogenous development children
FATIMAH’S KAMPUNG THE HOUSE OF LIZARDS, NATU THE CHICHAK NEW Iain Buchanan Rebecca Duckett Wilkinson
Fatimah’s kampung was the last kampung the city A lizard is just a lizard! consumed. It was a small kampung, which Fatimah’s moyang Or is it? had begun when he built a house from the forest. Nearby How many different lizards are there? was the keramat, with its doves and its sacred tree. And on Too many! the hill was the last patch of forest, where great rattans Here is a story of one! grew and tigers hid. For generations, the keramat had kept The first story of six, the kampung and its forest safe from development. about six different lizards who live with an old man, Everywhere else, villages had been flattened, precious who lives in a house full of lizards! landmarks destroyed. But Fatimah had been blessed. ‘a delightful read for children in Malaysia…. In the same way ‘For the vistas of a rural Malaysian landscape we don’t see that Beatrix Potter brings to life little animals in a very too often slapping our soles on KL’s sidewalks or in its malls... English atmosphere, Natu The Chichak … easily plunges Englishman Iain Buchanan’s ‘Fatimah’s Kampung’ offers, readers into a world of jungles, lush foliage, and colourful beyond its message, views of the green horizon which creepy crawlies lurking everywhere. One can almost hear Emerson thinks necessary for tired urban eyes and spirit’ lizards calling and insects buzzing’ – Jenny Daneels – Time Out Kuala Lumpur ‘Batik meets folk art in this book about a house lizard, or ‘Although this is a work of fiction, it’s very much an act of cicak, called Natu’ – The Star remembrance. Kampung Hidayah represents all that we have forgotten about old villages, including the respect for Rebecca Duckett Wilkinson is a council member of the nature implicit in their structures and rituals.’ – Amir Penang Heritage Trust and a resident of George Town who Muhammad began promoting Malaysia through textile design in 1980s.
Iain Buchanan is a former university professor who had Straits Estates Sdn Bhd, 2005 taught geography (which included ecology and economics) Short story / Children for roughly 35 years when he took early retirement. Softcover, 28 cm x 20 cm, 30 pages
Full colour illustrations Consumer Association of Penang, 2009 ISBN 978-983-34840-0-3 Children’s literature Price RM28 110 colour illustrations Softcover, 29.5 cm x 20.9 cm, 120 pages ISBN 978-983-30837-0-1
Price RM65
Hardcover, 30.7 cm x 21.9 cm, 120 pages
ISBN 978-983-30838-9-3 Price RM95
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Getting to know Malaysian cultures th rough an engaging activity book
OUR MALAYSIA: MULTI-CULTURAL ACTIVITY BOOK
FOR YOUNG MALAYSIANS Yazdi Jehangir Bankwala and M. Nadarajah
This innovative publication is aimed at enabling children and parents to experience Malaysia’s rich cultural diversity. The explicit aim of the authors is to motivate future generations to move beyond knowledge and tolerance to understanding and reverence for each other's culture. The book suggests that to experience Malaysia’s rich diversity in the spirit of enlightenment is to unify in diversity. This is the meaning of the book: an active appreciation and celebration of diversity.
It is an attractively-designed workbook with 31 fun assignments, with answers at the back.
Yazdi Jehangir Bankwala was a past president of Lions Club of Singapore Hill View, an international social service organisation and a co-founder of Centre for Promoting
Human Values, Singapore. M. Nadarajah is a sociologist by training. His work focuses on cultural and sustainability issues and he is the author of Another Malaysia is Possible
(2007).
Arpitha Associates (M), 2005
Children’s workbook Softcover, 17cm x 24 cm, 52 pages Colour illustrations ISBN 978-983-42472-0-1 Price RM15
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A complete series on Straits STRAITS CHINESE PORCELAIN: A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE Ho Wing Meng Chinese porcelain, silver, furniture, beadwork and embroidery
STRAITS CHINESE BEADWORK AND EMBROIDERY: A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE Ho Wing Meng
Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2008
Crafts & Collectibles
20 cm X 28 cm, 144 pages Full colour illustrations ISBN 978-981-26166-6-1 Price RM86
STRAITS CHINESE SILVER: A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE Ho Wing Meng
The first of its kind, this book highlights the uniqueness of beadwork and embroidery in that, unlike porcelain and silver which have actually been made by mainland Chinese craftsmen to Straits Chinese specifications, beadwork and embroidery are the exclusive handicrafts of the Straits Nyonyas. In this marvellous legacy, they have brought that touch of splendour to utilitarian items like comb boxes, stools, spectacle cases, and also provided the lavish costumes and embroidered panels and paraphernalia for the Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2008 festivities of the Straits Chinese wedding. In this companion volume to Straits Chinese Porcelain, Straits Chinese Furniture Crafts & Collectibles and Straits Chinese Silver, the author also covers new ground 20 cm X 28 cm, 192 pages by comparing beadwork fabricated by Straits Nyonyas with Full colour illustrations the Indonesian Peranakan variety and includes, in the ISBN 978-981-26166-7-8 embroidery section, a fascinating account of silk and Price RM86 sericulture. STRAITS CHINESE FURNITURE: A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE Ho Wing Meng taught and lectured in philosophy at the Ho Wing Meng National University of Singapore for 33 years before he
retired as associate professor in 1993. His books in the
Straits Chinese Heritage series were mainly written between
lecture and seminar commitments, and administrative duties.
Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2008 Crafts and collectibles 20 cm X 28 cm, 176 pages Full colour illustrations ISBN 978-981-26166-4-7 Price RM86 Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2008 Crafts & Collectibles 20 cm X 28 cm, 186 pages Full colour illustrations ISBN 978-981-26166-5-4 Price RM86
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An excellent study revealing the A comparative look at historic cities intimate secrets of Straits Chinese of Dutch Melaka and British women’s handicraft Penang
PHOENIX RISING: NARRATIVES IN NONYA TRADE AND SOCIETY IN THE STRAITS OF MELAKA: BEADWORK FROM THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS DUTCH MELAKA AND ENGLISH PENANG, 1780–1830 Cheah Hwei -Fe’n Nordin Hussin
Intricate, meticulously craf ted and visually distinctive, Nonya This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia’s new beadw ork occupies a significant role in the cultural generation of historians is a tale of two different cities, the imaginary of the Peranakan Chinese, the acculturated one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other descendants of Chinese migrants to the Malay peninsula and a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the the Indonesian archipelago. As an activity, beadwork was once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an once an important part of a Peranakan C hinese girl’s set of important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the skills. As an object, carefully crafted Nonya beadwork was Malay peninsula long before it fell to Portuguese forces in used at weddings and other celebratory occasions, touching 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of decline the lives of Peranakan men and women, young and old. In that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in this way, Nonya beadwork became entwined within the 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when wider rel ationships of gender, generation, and social ‘country traders’ created a base on the island to defy the hierarchy in Peranakan society. The Peranakans also Dutch monopoly, although it was quickly overshadowed by incorporated into their beadwork styles and motifs that Singapore after the founding of a British settlement there in reflected their changing ideals, aspirations, and lifestyles. 1819. Inscribed into the history of N onya beadwork is a narrative of the Peranakan Chinese community’s cultural 'This is a genuine pioneering study of Malaysian urban transformations. history that breaks much new ground. At its best it is a fine- grained social history of which we have seen far too little in ‘This is a very well -researched book that is richly illustrated…. Southeast Asia' – Anthony Reid Cheah ably describes the complexities and development of the Peranakan societies ’ – Journal of Southeast Asian Studies ‘Hussin does not succumb to the teleological temptation of the nation-state, to read in Dutch Melaka and British Penang Cheah Hwei -Fe’n is a lecturer in art history at Australian the roots of the modern Malaysian state, or of the Resident National University. System of late nineteenth-century Malaya. For this he is to be commended’ – James Fichter NUS Press, 2010 Arts and crafts Nordin Hussin is a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences Hardcover and softcover, 25.8 cm x 22.5 cm, 400 pages and Humanities at the National University of Malaysia Full colour illustrations (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). Hardback ISBN 978-9971-69-516-3 Price RM185 NUS Press, 2006
Paperback ISBN 978-9971-69-468-5 History
Price RM140 Softcover, 23.1 cm x 15.4 cm, 368 pages
ISBN 978-997-16935-4-1
Price RM55
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MALAYSIA
A grand narrative of Malayan The works of two Penang history up to independence photographers, father and son
MALAYA: THE MAKING OF A NATION 1510 –1957 PHOTOGRAPHING MALAYSIA Andrew Barber Tan Thye Siew and Jimmy Tan Eng Hin
Few people are more finely attuned to the possibilities of Tan Thye Siew began his career as a photographer and symbolism than Malaysians. It was no mere coincidence, recorder of social life in 1935. Living in cosmopolitan George therefore, that Malaysia’s first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Town, Tan’s passion for photography started at a time when
Rahman, chose to announce the date of national commercially available photographic film became widely independence from Malacca’s civic hall. In the early available to the public. Street scenes, buildings, people and sixteenth century it was Malacca that had first attracted the other fascinating facets of social life became the chief colonial Portuguese to Malaya, drawn by the lure of the East objects of his attention. Tan devoted all his free time to
Indies’ spice trade. It was therefore only fitting that Malacca developing his skills as a photographer, frequently using his should be chosen as the place from which to announce that family as subjects. The Tan Thye Siew and Jimmy Tan Eng Hin the sun was finally to set on the colonial era. Collection, consisting of over 1,500 photographs spanning
more than sixty years, reflect key moments in Malaysian
‘Despite the global format in which he chose to tell the tale, history. More importantly, it is a collection seen through the the chapters discuss specific issues that came to define eye of a single family, recording their development and the
Penang, such as the relationship Penang’s rulers had with changing times around them. It is the nation’s development
Malay sultanates and the eclecticism of the island’s physical seen from ‘street’ level, hence the title Photographing development’ – Penang Economic Monthly Malaysia.
Written in attractive prose by a person who has a flair for ‘Other than for historical reasons, the Tan family’s collection history and a story-teller’s gift, it’s a book that reads as well conveys a family perspective to living in George Town and as it feels. It’s obviously written for non-academics, and this being Malaysians’ – The Star is probably why it doesn’t have the whiff of must and mildew. – Homefrontier Tan Thye Siew is amateur photographer and proprietor of
Poh Hin, a shop selling imported watches on Penang Road.
His passion for photography was not shared by the rest of Andrew Barber is a former British diplomat who currently the family until his son, Jimmy Tan Eng Hin eventually lives and works in Kuala Lumpur. He is a Fellow of the Royal acquired his father’s keen eye for composition. He received Asiatic Society and is author of Penang at War (2010) and his education in the Britain before moving to Kuala Lumpur. Penang Under the East India Company 1786–1858 (2006).
AB&A, 2008 Trafalgar Publishing, 2008
Photography History Soft Cover, 25.8 cm x 22.5 cm, 400 pages Hard cover, 190 pages Full colour illustrations 170 black-and-white photographs ISBN 978 -9834-3372-1-6 ISBN 978-983-43245-2-0 Price RM80 Price RM120
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MISCELLANEOUS
An ethnomusicological study of the An accessible guide and source
Mandailing bamboo flute used in book on community water courtship music monitoring
TULILA: MUZIK BUJUKAN MANDAILING WATER WATCH: A COMMUNITY ACTION GUIDE Edi Nasution Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
This is an ethnomusicological study in Bahasa Malaysia / Water problems of supply, contamination and waste are
Indonesia of Mandailing courtship music – tulila – used to critical indicators of the limits of urban growth and flaws in woo a lover’s heart, in the tradition of markusip. While the urban development. This work is a source-book aimed at
raising popular awareness of water problems and at maiden is cloistered in the bagas podoman under the empowering communities and individuals with simple ways tutelage of a respected elderly woman, the youth keenly of conserving and managing their water. Step-by-step romances her with his skillful playing of the bamboo fl ute. Alternating with verse or ende-ende, tulila music is heard. illustrated instructions highlight how simple projects suitable And so the passion is fanned between youth and maiden, for community-based organisations and schools can raise who reveal the secrets of their hearts before the breaking of awareness and develop knowledge of local watercourses dawn. While examining the Mandailing arts, the book and watersheds. The book also contains a glossary, a describes Mandailing cul ture, language, lifestyles, customs, selective bibliography and a directory of agencies around the ancient beliefs, social order, indigenous knowledge, world working with water. environment and settlement patterns in the Sumatran highlands. ‘The book will prove particularly valuable for schools, but can also be read with considerable benefit by anyone trying to ‘It is an interesting, well -crafted study … based on close reduce their home water consumption’ – Henry Barlow organological observ ation and musical transcription’ – Margaret Kartomi ‘a source-book aimed at raising popular awareness of water problems and at empowering communities and individuals ‘What makes the research precious is that the tradition of with simple ways of conserving and managing their water‘ making and playing the tulila is exp ected to become extinct – Environment and Urbanization by 2010’ – Himanshu Bhatt Abdur-Razzaq Lubis is an author and environmentalist who
Edi Nasution hails from Gunung Tua-Muarasoro in advocates a cultural, indigenous wisdom, faith and nature-
Mandailing Julu (Upper Mandailing). He obtained a degree in based approach to the environment. He is the author of ethnomusicology in 1995 from the University of North ‘Environmental ethics in Islam’ in Towards an Environmental
Sumatra in Medan, Indonesia. Ethic in Southeast Asia (1998) and an essay in The Encylopedia of Religion and Nature (2005).
Areca Books, 2007
Music / Ethnography Asia-Pacific People's Environmental Network (APPEN), 1998 Environmental studies Soft Cover, 16.5 cm x 24 cm, 202 pages Softcover, 20.5 cm x 25.5 cm, 96 pages 50 black -and-white illustrations and 43 musical notations ISBN 978 -983-42834-4-5 Black/white illustrations Price RM40 ISBN 983-99416-0-7 Price RM20
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PART I: PENANG TITLES
Title / Author ISBN Unit Qty Amount price
1 Portraits of Penang: Little India / Ooi Cheng Ghee 978-967-5719-05-9 RM100
2 Heritage Trees of Penang / Simon Gardner, Pindar Sidisunthorn and Lai 978-967-5719-06-6 RM100 Ee May 3 Hail, Penang! / George Bilainkin 978-967-57190-2-8 RM40
4 The Sara Saga / Manicasothy Saravanamuttu 978-967-57190-3-5 RM40
5 Giving Our Best: The Story of St George's Girls' School, Penang, 1885– 978-967-57190-4-2 RM100 2010 / Khoo Salma Nasution, Alison Hayes and Sehra Yeap Zimbulis 6 More Than Merchants / Khoo Salma Nasution 978-983-42834-1-5 RM60
7 Days Gone By: Growing Up in Penang / Christine Wu Ramsay 978-983-42834-6-9 RM50
8 The Chinese in Penang / Tan Kim Hong 978-983-42834-7-6 RM120
9 Penang, Through Gilded Doors / Julia de Bierre and James Bain Smith 978-983-42834-2-3 RM80 Penang, La Porte des Secrets / Julia de Bierre and James Bain Smith 978-983-42834-3-1 RM80
10 Heritage Houses of Penang / Khoo Salma Nasution and Halim Berbar 978-981-23280-6-9 RM86
11 Streets of George Town, Penang / Khoo Su Nin 978-983-98860-0-9 RM35
12 Penang Postcards Collection: 1899–1930s / Khoo Salma Nasution and 978-983-28850-0-0 RM120 Malcolm Wade
13 Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways / Ric Francis and Colin Ganley 978-983-42834-0-7 RM50
14 A Tapestry of Baba Poetry (CD attached) / Johny Chee 978-983-42912-1-1 RM37
15 Penang and Its Region / Yeoh Seng Guan, Loh Wei Leng, Khoo Salma 978-997-16942-3-4 RM45 Nasution and Neil Khor (eds) 16 Penang under the East India Company 1786–1858 / Andrew Barber 978-983-43372-2-3 RM110
17 English-Penang Hokkien Pocket Dictionary / Luc de Gijzel 978-983-44646-0-8 RM22
18 Learn To Speak... Hokkien Dialect / Tan Choon Hoe 978-983-40774-0-2 RM20 Mari Belajar Bertutur ... Loghat Hokkien Pulau Pinang / Tan Choon Hoe 978-983-40774-1-6 RM18 Penang Hokkien Dialect for Penangites & Tourists / Tan Choon Hoe 978-983-40774-3-3 RM23
19 Penang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community / Jean 978-9971-69-416-6 RM49 DeBernardi 20 Great Dining in Penang 2 / Helen Ong 978-983-43915-1-5 RM28
21 Sun Yat Sen in Penang / Khoo Salma Nasution — English Version 978-983-42834-8-3 RM30 — Traditional Chinese Version 978-967-57190-0-4 RM30 — Simplified Chinese Version 978-983-42834-9-0 RM30
22 Road To Dawn: Filming in Penang / Goh Mai Loon and Khoo Salma 978-983-42834-5-2 RM25 Nasution 23 Bestowing Luck and Prosperity On All / Tan Lye Hoe 978-983-43661-2-4 RM100
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PART II: PERAK TITLES
Title / Author ISBN Unit Qty Amount price
24 Perak Postcards 1890s–1940s / Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Malcolm Wade and 978-967-57190-1-1 RM120 Khoo Salma Nasution
25 Kinta Valley / Khoo Salma Nasution and Abdur-Razzaq Lubis 978-983-42113-0-9 RM150
26 Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak / Abdur-Razzaq Lubis and Khoo 978-967-99483-1-5 RM60 Salma Nasution 27 Ipoh When Tin Was King / Ho Tak Ming 978-983-42500-2-7 RM120
PART III: OTHER TITLES
CHILDREN
Title / Author ISBN Unit Qty Amount price
28 Fatimah’s Kampung / Iain Buchanan — Softcover 978-983-30837-0-1 RM65 — Hardcover 978-983-30838-9-3 RM95
29 The House Of Lizards, Natu The Chichak / Rebecca Duckett Wilkinson 978-983-34840-0-3 RM28
30 Our Malaysia: Multicultural Activity Book For Young Malaysians / Yazdi 978-983-42472-0-1 RM15 Jehangir Bankwala and M. Nadarajah THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
Title / Author ISBN Unit Qty Amount price
31 Straits Chinese Beadwork & Embroidery / Ho Wing Meng 978-9812-61-664-7 RM86
32 Straits Chinese Porcelain / Ho Wing Meng 978-9812-61-666-1 RM86
33 Straits Chinese Silver / Ho Wing Meng 978-9812-61-667-8 RM86
34 Straits Chinese Furniture / Ho Wing Meng 978-9812-61-665-4 RM86
35 Phoenix Rising: Narratives in Nonya Beadwork from the Straits Settlements / Cheah Hwei-Fe’n — Softcover 978-9971-69-468-5 RM140 — Hardcover 978-9971-69-516-3 RM185
36 Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English 978-9971-69-354-1 RM55 Penang, 1780–1830 / Nordin Hussin MALAYSIA
Title / Author ISBN Unit Qty Amount price
37 Malaya: The Making of a Nation / Andrew Barber 978-9834-3372-1-6 RM80
38 Photographing Malaysia / Tan Thye Siew and Jimmy Tan Eng Hin 978-983-43245-2-0 RM120
MISCELLANEOUS
Title / Author ISBN Unit Qty Amount price
39 Tulila: Muzik Bujukan Mandailing / Edi Nasution 978-983-42834-4-5 RM40
40 Water Watch - A Community Action Guide / Abdur-Razzaq Lubis 983-99416-0-7 RM20
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INDEX
Bain Smith, James 7 Khoo Su Nin see Khoo Salma Nasution Photographing Malaysia 21 Barber, Andrew 10, 21 Khor, Neil 10 Portraits Of Penang: Little India 3 Berbar, Halim 7 Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia’s Modern Bestowing Luck and Prosperity On All 14 Development 15 Raja Bilah and the Mandailings In Perak: Bilainkin, George 4 1875–1911 16 Buchanan, Iain 17 Lai Ee May 3 Ramsay, Christine Wu 6 Learn To Speak ... Penang Hokkien Dialect Road To Dawn: Filming in Penang 13 11 Cheah Hwei-Fe’n 20 Loh Wei Leng 10 Chee, Johny 9 Sara Saga, The 4 Chinese In Penang: A Pictorial History, The Lubis, Abdur-Razzaq 15, 16, 22 Saravanamuttu, Manicasothy 4 6 Sidisunthorn, Pindar 3 Malaya: Making of a Nation 1510–1957 21 Straits Chinese Beadwork and Embroidery: Days Gone By: Growing Up in Penang 6 Mari Belajar Bertutur ... Loghat Hokkien A Collector’s Guide 19 De Bierre, Julia 7 Pulau Pinang 11 Straits Chinese Furniture: A Collector’s More Than Merchants: A History of the Guide 19 De Gijzel, Luc 11 German-Speaking Community in Penang, Straits Chinese Porcelain: A Collector’s DeBernardi, Jean 12 1800s–1940s 5 Guide 19 Duckett Wilkinson, Rebecca 17 Straits Chinese Silver: A Collector’s Guide
Nadarajah, M. 18 19 English–Penang Hokkien Pocket Dictionary Nasution, Edi 22 Streets Of George Town, Penang: An 11 Nordin Hussin 20 Illustrated Guide To Penang’s City Streets
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Fatimah’s Kampung 17 Sun Yat Sen in Penang 13 Ong, Helen 12 Francis, Ric 9 Ooi Cheng Ghee 3
Tan Choon Hoe 11 Our Malaysia: Multi-Cultural Activity Book Ganley, Colin 9 For Young Malaysians 18 Tan Eng Hin, Jimmy 21 Gardner, Simon 3 Tan Kim Hong 6 Giving Our Best: The Story Of St George’s Penang and its Region: The Story of an Tan Lye Hoe 14 Girls’ School, Penang, 1885–2010 5 Asian Entrepot 10 Tan Thye Siew 21 Goh Mai Loon 13 Penang Hokkien Dialect for Penangites and Tapestry Of Baba Poetry, A 9 Great Dining In Penang 2 12 Tourists 11 Trade and Society in the Straits Of Melaka:
Penang Postcard Collection 1899–1930s 8 Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780– Hail, Penang! 4 Penang Through Gilded Doors 7 1830 20 Hayes, Alison 5 Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways: Tulila: Muzik Bujukan Mandailing 22 Heritage Houses of Penang 7 Municipal Transport History 1880s–1963 Heritage Trees of Penang 3 9 Wade, Malcolm 8, 15 Ho Tak Ming 16 Penang Under the East India Company, Water Watch: A Community Action Guide Ho Wing Meng 19 1786–1858 10 22 House Of Lizards, Natu The Chichak, The 17 Penang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community 12 Yazdi Jehangir Bankwala 18 Ipoh When Tin Was King 16 Perak Postcards: 1890s–1940s 15 Yeap Zimbulis, Sehra 5 Phoenix Rising: Narratives in Nonya Yeoh Seng Guan 10 Beadwork from the Straits Settlements Khoo Salma Nasution 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16 20
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