{"id":17658,"date":"2019-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/01\/22\/studying-singapore-before-1800\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:21:54","slug":"studying-singapore-before-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/01\/22\/studying-singapore-before-1800\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying Singapore Before 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17659\" style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17659\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Studying_S_pore_new_Cvr_confirmed_3_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Studying_S_pore_new_Cvr_confirmed_3_1024x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Studying_S_pore_new_Cvr_confirmed_3_1024x1024-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: NUS Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On 29 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore, marking an important moment in the island&#8217;s gradual development into a nation. Singapore&#8217;s history has frequently been summarised as being a booming trading port due to its strategic geographical position in the 14th century and becoming a British colony in 1819. Yet in the gap between these time periods lies a lull in trade, a puzzling phenomenon many historians continue to try to explain.<\/p>\n<p>While some authors have turned to ancient and early modern texts for references to Singapore, others have tried to string narratives bridging pre- and post-1800 perceptions of Singapore. Adjunct Associate Professor Kwa Chong Guan and Associate Professor Peter Borschberg (NUS Department of History) have compiled a volume of studies that brings together various 20th century attempts by academics to reconstruct Singapore&#8217;s &#8220;missing years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Studying Singapore Before 1800<\/i> (NUS Press, 2018) seeks to answer the question of what happened to Singapore before British colonial rule. The volume is an ambitious effort at building a richer understanding of pre-1800 Singapore. It offers insights into the relevance of classics such as the <i>Sejarah Melayu<\/i> in imagining Singapore&#8217;s past, as well as presenting many hard to find articles, two of which have been translated from Dutch to English for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <em>Studying SIngapore Before 1800 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/studying-singapore-before-1800\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 29 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore, marking an important moment in the island&#8217;s gradual development into a nation. Singapore&#8217;s history has frequently been summarised as being a booming trading port due to its strategic geographical position in the 14th century and becoming a British colony in 1819. Yet in the gap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28394,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions\/28394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}