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South Seas Society (Singapore)
The South Seas Society ( zh, c=南洋学会, p=Nányáng Xúehuì) is a scholarly society in Singapore, which promotes research on Southeast Asia ( Nanyang, lit. "South Seas"). The Society was founded in March 1940 as the China South Seas Society ( zh, c=中国南洋学会, p=Zhōnggúo Nányáng Xúehuì). Its founders included Kwan Chu Poh ( zh, c=关楚璞), Yu Dafu ( zh, c=郁达夫), Yao Tse-Liang ( zh, c=姚楠), Hsu Yun Tsiao Hsu Yun Tsiao ( zh, c=許雲樵, p=Xǔ Yúnqiáo; birth name zh, c=許鈺, p=Xǔ Yù; 1905 – 17 November 1981) was a scholar of Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asian history. Hsu was born in 1905 in Jiangsu Province, China. He was raised by h ... ( zh, c=许云樵), and other scholars and literary figures. Former members of the Society's managing committee include: T. L. Yao, Huang Mun-se ( zh, c=黄曼士), Han Wai-toon ( zh, c=韩槐准), Lian Shih-sheng ( zh, c=连士升), and Gwee Yee-hean ( zh, c=魏维贤). The founding of a Chinese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and north-west of mainland Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of Bengal, to the east by Oceania and the Pacific Ocean, and to the south by Australia (continent), Australia and the Indian Ocean. Apart from the British Indian Ocean Territory and two out of atolls of Maldives, 26 atolls of Maldives in South Asia, Maritime Southeast Asia is the only other subregion of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere. Mainland Southeast Asia is completely in the Northern Hemisphere. East Timor and the southern portion of Indonesia are the only parts that are south of the Equator. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanyang (region)
Nanyang () is the Chinese term for the warmer and fertile geographical region along the southern coastal regions of China and beyond, otherwise known as the ' South Sea' or Southeast Asia. The term came into common usage in self-reference to the large ethnic Chinese migrant population in Southeast Asia, and is contrasted with ''Xiyang'' (), which refers to the Western world, ''Dongyang'' (), which refers to East Asian cultural sphere and occasionally including the Greater India, and ''Beiyang'' (), which refers to Russia. The Chinese press regularly uses the term to refer to the region stretching from Yunnan Province to Singapore (north to south) and from Myanmar (Burma) to Vietnam (west to east); in addition, the term also refers to Brunei, East Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia and the Philippines in the region it encompasses. The alternative term, " Great Golden Peninsula", came into common usage due to the large number of Chinese migrants – attempting to escape the reach of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Dafu
Yu Wen, better known by his courtesy name Yu Dafu (December 7, 1896 – September 17, 1945) was a modern Chinese short story writer and poet. He was one of the new literary group initiators, and this new literary group was named the Creation Society. His literary masterpieces include ''Chenlun'' (沈淪, Sinking), ''Chunfeng chenzui de wanshang'' (春風沈醉的晚上, Intoxicating Spring Nights), ''Guoqu'' (過去, The Past), ''Chuben'' (出奔, Flight) and so on. Yu Dafu's literary works' writing style and main themes profoundly influenced a group of young writers and formed a spectacular romantic trend in Chinese literature in the 1920s and 1930s. He died in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, likely executed. Early years Yu was born in Fuyang, Zhejiang province. His father died when he was three, leaving the family poverty-stricken and destitute. He received a number of scholarships through the Chinese government and went on to receive a traditional Chinese education in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yao Tse-Liang
Yao or YAO may refer to: * Yao (surname), the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么 * Yao (ruler), a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor * Yao Ming, Chinese Basketball All-Star that played for the Houston Rockets * Euphrasie Kouassi Yao, Ivorian politician * Yao people, ethnic minority group of southern China and Vietnam * Yao languages spoken by the Yao * Yao people (East Africa), people of south-central Africa * Yao language, a Bantu language spoken by the waYao people in Africa * Yao language (Trinidad), an extinct Cariban language formerly spoken on Trinidad * Yao may be short for yaodong, a type of Chinese cave dwelling * Yao (Gnosticism), the name of an archon in Gnostic scripture * Yao, Chad, a town in Chad * Yao, Osaka, a city in Japan ** Related: Yao Airport * Yao (爻), the term for the marks used in the preparation of trigrams and hexagrams in I Ching that is also the basis for Kangxi radical 89 * Yao, a character in the ''Mulan'' franchis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsu Yun Tsiao
Hsu Yun Tsiao ( zh, c=許雲樵, p=Xǔ Yúnqiáo; birth name zh, c=許鈺, p=Xǔ Yù; 1905 – 17 November 1981) was a scholar of Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asian history. Hsu was born in 1905 in Jiangsu Province, China. He was raised by his maternal grandparents after the death of his parents. In 1931, he migrated to Singapore. He taught in Chinese schools in Johor and contributed to newspapers like the Nanyang Siang Pau. Between 1933 and 1938, he taught in Thailand, where he met his wife (née Liu). He taught at Nanyang University from 1957 to 1961. Between 1963 and 1971, he worked at the Southeast Asian Research Centre (新加坡东南亚硏究所), and was the editor of its ''Journal of Southeast Asian Researches'' (《东南亚硏究》), which published seven volumes between 1965 and 1971. He later taught at Ngee Ann College (today's Ngee Ann Polytechnic) between 1973 and 1976. In addition to his teaching and editorial work, Hsu was noted for translating Malay an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lien Shih Sheng
Lien Shih Sheng ( zh, c=连士升; 24 May 1907 – 9 July 1973), better known by his penname Ziyun, was a pioneer writer and news editor in Singapore. Early life and education Lien was born in Fu'an, Fujian on 24 May 1907. He first received his education from his father, who was a teacher. At the age of seven, he was enrolled in the school where his father was teaching. However, his father died a year later, and he transferred to another school. After graduating, he began attending a private academy in Fu'an. Following his mother's death, he began attending schools in Xiapu and Fuzhou. He then began attending Yenching University in Beijing, where he majored in economics. After graduating in 1931, he continued to attend the university as a graduate student. Career While in Beijing, Lien began writing for various publications, including '' Shen Bao''. He served as the editor of several publications, including '' The Chinese Historical Geography Semi-monthly Magazine''. He founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Scientific
World Scientific Publishing is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals headquartered in Singapore. The company was founded in 1981. It publishes about 600 books annually, along with 135 journals in various fields. In 1995, World Scientific co-founded the London-based Imperial College Press together with the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Company structure The company head office is in Singapore. The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief is Dr Phua Kok Khoo, while the Managing Director is Doreen Liu. The company was co-founded by them in 1981. Imperial College Press In 1995 the company co-founded Imperial College Press, specializing in engineering, medicine and information technology, with Imperial College London. In 2006, World Scientific assumed full ownership of Imperial College Press, under a license granted by the university. Finally, in August 2016, ICP was fully incorporated into World Scientific under the new imprint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Gungwu
Wang Gungwu, (; born 9 October 1930) is a Chinese-Singaporean historian, sinologist, and writer. He is a historian of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word ''diaspora'' to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a " Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government. An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia. Background Wang was born in Surabaya, Indonesia to ethnic Chinese parents from Taizhou, Jiangsu and grew up in Ipoh, Malaysia. He completed his secondary education in Anderson School, an English medium school in Ipoh. Wang studied history in the University of Malaya, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He was a founding member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Singapore
The culture of Singapore has changed greatly over the millennia. Its contemporary modern culture consists of a combination of Asian and European cultures, mainly by Malay, South Asian, East Asian and Eurasian influences. Singapore has been dubbed as a country where "East meets West", "Gateway to Asia" and a "Garden city". History Singapore's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Austronesian people that arrived from the island of Taiwan, settling between 1500 to 1000 BCE. It was then influenced during the Middle Ages primarily by multiple Chinese dynasties such as the Ming and Qing, as well as by other Asian countries such as the Majapahit Empire, Tokugawa shogunate, and the Ryukyu Kingdom. In the near-contemporary history after the British arrived, Singapore was also influenced by western countries. Repeated influence, absorption and selection in various ways have added to the development of a distinct and unique culture. It has a diverse populace of over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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