Mother’s Little Helper in the Philippines in the 1930s
It’s a well-known fact that it is not easy to be a mother, and that every mom needs some help from time to time (or every day). In the 1960s…
Assumptions and Blurred Lines in Vietnamese Historical Scholarship
Today I was looking at a work that was published in 1985, the History of Vietnam (Lịch sử Việt Nam). The first chapter deals with archaeological information and the second…
Milk, Cognac and a Man’s Good Friend in 1930s Singapore
Advertisements in Chinese language newspapers in Singapore in the 1930s are very interesting. Earlier in the century, the advertisements were very male-focused, and dealt with things that appealed to working…
The Rectification of Signifiers for the Historical Inhabitants of the Red River Delta
In the Analects (Lunyu 論語), there is a line that goes as follows: “The master said, ‘If names are not rectified, then what is said will not obey/follow [true meaning],…
The Water in (Southeast Asian) History
Someone forwarded me a YouTube video that someone made of a commencement speech that the late novelist, David Foster Wallace, gave in 2005 at Kenyon College. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z5TIFr5XMo The speech is…
SVN Army Behavior Posters from the 1950s
I came across a series of seven “Army Behavior Posters” in the US National Archives that were created in the 1950s by the United States Information Service (but it was…
Filipino Lemon Juice at the Singaporean Lost Horizon in 1973
The previous post brought out some good comments by readers/friends on Facebook. We have been having a little discussion about why it is that Filipino musicians were (and to some…
Going Gay in the Free Chinese World in the 1960s
In 1964, Filipino musician and songwriter Vic O. Cristobal (葛士培) and (I’m assuming Hong Kong) lyricist Ye Lü (葉綠) wrote a song called “Enjoy Yourself Tonight” (歡樂今宵) that was recorded…
The Coffins in the Batu Puteh Caves
I had never heard of the Batu Puteh Caves until I read about them in the July 16, 1903 issue of The British North Borneo Herald. These caves high up…
Getting Sexist and Sony-O-Matic in 1970s Singapore
I got a dose of 70s nostalgia today, so I decided to take a look at what was happening in Singapore in the 1970s. And one of the first things…
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