The Scripting of A National History: Singapore and Its Pasts

List of Photographs

List of Photographs On the front cover: The bronze statue commemorating Sir Stamford Raffles as the founder of Singapore was unveiled in 1887 at the Padang in celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. It was moved to the grounds in front of the Victoria Memorial Hall in 1919, the centen訂y ofthe island's colonial founding. In 1942 the statue was placed in the Syonan Museum (hitherto the Raffles Museum), a process that was filmed by the propaganda unit of the military administration which ruled Singapore as a Japanese colony during the Second World War. The postwar British colonial government returned the statue to its original site where it still stands, accompanied since 1972 by its white polymarble replica situated nearby along the Singapore River where Raffles purportedly first set foot on Singapore. On the back cover: The diorama is the last in a set of twen旬， chronicling the history of Singapore. The opposition benches were empty when the first parliament sat after Singapore separated from Malaysia to become an independent republic. On 3 February 1963 at least 107 left-wing politicians and trade unionists in Singapore had been detained, and could not stand for the general elections held in September of that year, which saw the opposition Barisan Socialis win thirteen of the fifty-one seats. Arrests of three opposition members and the fleeing of two others to escape this meant that there were only eight ofthem left. The Barisan Socialis declared Singapore's independence as spurious, boycotted parliament, and the 1968 elections. Parliament had an opposition member only in 1981. xiv List of Photographs Following page 204: 1. Lee Kuan Yew at the opening ceremony of the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, 12 November 2001. (Source: Ministry of Information, Communications and theArts, Courtesy ofNationa1 Archives of Singapore, No. 19990005942/070) 2. Minister ofEducation Teo Chee Hean (third from right), great grand nephew of Teo Eng Hock, at the opening ceremony of the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall on 12 November 2001, posing with the photograph of Tongmenghui members, including Teo Eng Hock (front row, second from left) who was also an e征ly owner of the Villa. (Source: Ministry of Information, Communications and theArts, Courtesy of Nationa1 Archives of Singapore, No. 19990005943/004) 3. Granite stele inscribed with Lee Kuan Yew's words ‘One Man Changed China, Dr Sun Yat Sen', March 2007. (Source: K. K. Sim) 4. Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, March 2007. (Source: K. K. Sim) 5. Tree of Martyrs with calligraphic plaque by Wang Daohan (PRC CrossStraits relations negotiator) and statues of Nanyang revolutionaries Yu Dongxiong (left, cousin offuture magnate Eu Tong Sen) and Huang Heming (rig恤， mechanic from Singapore), Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, March 2007. (Source: K. K. Sim) 6. Chiku tr巴巴 with calligraphic plaque by Koo Chenfu (ROC Cross-Straits relations n巳gotiator) and statu巳 of Commission巳r Lin Zexu (of Opium War fame), Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, March 2007. (Source: K. K. Sim) 7. Japanese cultural troupe touring Tiger Balm Gardens, November 1966. (Source: Ministry of Information,Communications and the Arts,Courtesy of National Archiv巳s of Singapor巴， No. 19980005293/18) 8. Capturing a slic巳 of memory at a Tig巳r Balm Gardens archway and Aw family shrin巴， November 1966. (Source: Ministry of Information, Communications and theArts, Courtesy ofNational Archives of Singapore, No. 19980005293/020) 9. Peddlers at the entrance of the Tiger Balm Gardens doing a roaring trade, 1960. (Source: K. F. Wong, Court的y of National Archives of Singapore, No. 19990003435/037) 10. The Tiger Balm Gardens metamorphosed into the Dragon World theme park, October 1990. (Source: Courtesy of Singapore Tourism Board and National Archives of Singapore, No. 19980006577/116) ...