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Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Helen Ting
p. vii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994304
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P.G. Lim and the Struggle for Equality: Gender, Bureaucracy, and Diplomacy in Post-Independence Malaysia

Yalan Ren, Danny Wong Tze Ken
pp. 1-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994305
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The Overlooked Merchant: Saudagar Nasruddin and the Terengganu-Penang Trade Through the Light Letters

Siti Noor Hafizah Mohamed Sharif, Mahani Musa
pp. 27-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994306
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Chinese Capital and Maritime Shipping in Malaya: The Ho Hong Steamship Company Limited, 1911–1932

Chan Mei Yi, Ho Kee Chye
pp. 53-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994307
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Reconsidering the Malay Activities of the Anglo-Chinese College and the Malacca Mission Station

Ye Youyun
pp. 85-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994308
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Selected Letters from the Light Letters Collection (1770s–1790s)

Siti Noor Hafizah Mohamed Sharif, Mahani Musa
pp. 111-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994309
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The Guar Kepah Skeletons

Suresh Narayanen, Hisham Atan Edinur, Nasha Rodziadi Khaw
pp. 119-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994310
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Connected Heritages: The Inner life of Penang in the Indian Ocean world by Mareike Pampus (review)

Lakshmi Subramanian
pp. 131-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994311
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Border History From A Borneo Longhouse: The Search For A Life That Is Very Good by Valerie Mashman (review)

Terry Justin Dit
pp. 133-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994312
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HMS Rinaldo & The Selangor Incident: Gunboat Diplomacy in Malaya by Tham Junean (review)

Vivian Louis Forbes
pp. 135-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994313
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Convents of the Saint Maur Sisters: A Nostalgic Road in the East by Chen Yen Ling (review)

Koay Su Lyn
pp. 137-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994314
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The Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia: Trade and Merchant Communities in 17th-century Insulindia by Marie-Sybille de Vienne (review)

Jafar Suryomenggolo
pp. 138-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994315
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Chronicling Themes in the Economic and Social History of Malaysia ed. by Sultan Nazrin Shah (review)

Ong Wooi Leng
pp. 142-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2026.a994316
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