1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts Caroline S. Hau Publication Date: 07 Feb 2014

Publication Date: 07 Feb 2014

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Huang Hua just celebrated his 96th birthday

one of the great classics of science fiction

to calm down

1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts Caroline S. Hau Publication Date: 07 Feb 2014The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffless 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 Singapores history before Raffles.