Betraying Eurasians in WW II Singapore
I think it would be safe to say that anthropologist Ann Stoler is one of the pioneers of the study of “mixed-race” peoples in colonial settings, and in European colonies…
Noraini and Choo are Smarter than You
I came across these advertisements for The Chartered Bank in a magazine called Malaysia from the early 1970s. I find the logic that these advertisements use to communicate with the…
In the Darkness of a Colonial Singaporean Prison Cell
In the nineteenth century, colonial officials in Singapore were proud of their prison system, and particularly proud of their “convict prison.” This was a place for criminals who had been…
The Thai-ification of an Ovaltine Ad
Sometimes when I look at old newspapers I come across the same advertisement in newspapers from different places and in different languages. I think this one here is interesting. The…