Review of Serge Jardin ed. 2023: Literary Excursions & Fortuitous Encounters. Areca Books, Penang, Malaysia. www.arecabooks.com Prepared by Dr Christine Choo, Historian and Independent Scholar, Perth, Western Australia © Contemporary Malaysians and visitors to Malaysia can be forgiven for their failure to recognise and acknowledge the presence and impact of the French in Malaysia which Read More …
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Penang Serani, Martina Rozells in “Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World”
Eurasian Family Histories in Colonial Penang (The Journal of Modern Asian Studies)
KIRSTY WALKER (2012). Intimate Interactions: Eurasian family histories in colonial Penang. Modern Asian Studies, 46, pp 303-329 doi:10.1017/S0026749X1100093X Eurasian Family Histories in Colonial Penang by Deb Bie on Scribd
Eurasian Essence: The New Sunday Times (16th August 2015)
A cover-story in the Sunday papers on the same weekend as the community’s 229th anniversary of the first Eurasians landing on Penang island. Right-click on image to open it in a new tab or window for a more easy-to-read size.
Denyse Tessensohn takes a bow for ‘Elvis’
Join me in congratulating one of our own whose writing was featured in a SG + MY theatre production now showing in Singapore, after a sold-out run in KL (I had to see it twice!) From the company’s website: “Another Country is a celebration of writers and their words – it was only fitting that Read More …