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Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Paul Kratoska
p. vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900781
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History in the Malaysian Public Sphere

Danny Wong Tze Ken
pp. 1-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900782
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The Timing of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Local Agency, and the Challenge of Analysing Religious Conversion

Anthony Milner
pp. 21-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900783
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James Carnegy and the ‘Country Trade’ in Penang, c.1802–1824

F. Andrew Smith
pp. 51-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900784
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Kung Tian Cheng: From Confucian Scholar in Singapore to Reformer in the Chinese Republic

Bonny Tan
pp. 81-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900785
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Constructing Colonial Benevolence: Portraits of Persons with Leprosy in British Malaya

Por Heong Hong
pp. 99-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900786
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Recording the Emergency: On the Historical Fiction of Jin Zhimang, Anthony Burgess, and Han Suyin

Jonathan Chan
pp. 121-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900787
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The Trading Environment in the Melaka Straits, c. 1800–1830

Paul Kratoska
pp. 149-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900788
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Carl A. Gibson-Hill: Photography, History, Boats, and Birds in Late-Colonial Malaya and Singapore by Brendan Luyt (review)

Kwa Chong Guan
pp. 155-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900789
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The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty by Raja Iskandar bin Raja Halid (review)

Lawrence N. Ross
pp. 159-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900790
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Belitung, the afterlives of a shipwreck by Natali Pearson (review)

Yolande Crowe
pp. 161-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900791
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An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family ed. by Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan (review)

Jason Lim
pp. 163-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900792
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Life After: Oral Histories of the May 13 Incident ed. by Tham Seen Hau et al (review)

Helen Ting
pp. 164-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900793
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The Pioneer Merchants of Singapore: Johnston, Boustead, Guthrie and Others by R. E. Hale (review)

Seng Guo-Quan
pp. 166-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900794
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The Straits Philosophical Society and Colonial Elites in Malaya: Selected Paper on Race, Identity, and Social Order ed. by Lim Teck Ghee and Charles Brophy (review)

Azly Rahman
pp. 168-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900795
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The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory by Kevin Blackburn (review)

Kelvin E. Y. Low
pp. 169-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2023.a900796
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