{"id":35523,"date":"2025-12-05T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=35523"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:05:59","slug":"recording-now-available-singapore-heritage-roundtable-11-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2025\/12\/05\/recording-now-available-singapore-heritage-roundtable-11-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording now available: Singapore Heritage Roundtable (11 November 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the \u201cCelebrating Singapore Studies: Sixty Years of Nationhood\u201d campaign, the Singapore Research Nexus hosted a richly informative <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2025\/11\/03\/%F0%9D%97%98%F0%9D%97%A9%F0%9D%97%98%F0%9D%97%A1%F0%9D%97%A7-%F0%9D%97%A6%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B4%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%97%BD%F0%9D%97%BC%F0%9D%97%BF%F0%9D%97%B2-%F0%9D%97%9B%F0%9D%97%B2\/\">Heritage Research Roundtable<\/a> that featured four National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant recipients from FASS and brought fresh scholarly light to lesser-known chapters of Singapore\u2019s past. The full video recording is now available <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycyrvvnv\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome Remarks and Chair: Assoc Prof Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History &amp; Assistant Dean of Research, FASS)<\/li>\n<li>Opening Remarks: Ms Melissa May Tan (Director, Heritage Policy &amp; Research, National Heritage Board)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr Yang Yan (Research Fellow, NUS Chinese Studies)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\"><em>In Their Own Ways: Identification and Documentation of Singapore\u2019s Chinese Medicine<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Explores how Singapore\u2019s Chinese medical tradition diverged from mainland TCM, developing distinctive doctrines, diagnostics, and formulae shaped by local climates, migration patterns, and everyday clinical practice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr Clay Eaton (Lecturer, NUS Japanese Studies)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\"><em>Mapping Middle Road: Prewar Japanese Community in Singapore<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Reconstructs the vibrant yet largely forgotten \u201cLittle Japan\u201d centred on Middle Road \u2013 home to merchants, photographers, dentists, schoolchildren, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karayuki-san\"><em>karayuki-san<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 and its place within colonial Singapore\u2019s cosmopolitan society.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr Jinna Tay (Senior Lecturer, NUS Communications and New Media)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\"><em>Re-Interpreting Fashion Narratives in Singapore: De-colonising the Modern<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">Draws on decades of newspaper archives (1950s-1990s) to reveal how fashion became a site where colonial ideas of modernity persisted, and how contemporary research can help deconstruct those inherited frameworks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Asst Prof Guo-Quan Seng (Assistant Professor, NUS History)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\"><em>Small Businesses and Shops of Chinatown, 1819-1980s<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\">A social history of the modest shophouses and enterprises that formed the backbone of Chinatown\u2019s economy, tracing flows of textiles, rubber, remittances, and credit across regional Chinese networks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We invite researchers alumni, heritage enthusiasts, and the wider public to watch the recording and discover how NUS FASS scholars are uncovering the diverse, lived textures of Singapore\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35290 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/11\/Singapore-Heritage-Roundtable-Video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/11\/Singapore-Heritage-Roundtable-Video.png 1920w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/11\/Singapore-Heritage-Roundtable-Video-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/11\/Singapore-Heritage-Roundtable-Video-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/11\/Singapore-Heritage-Roundtable-Video-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/11\/Singapore-Heritage-Roundtable-Video-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the \u201cCelebrating Singapore Studies: Sixty Years of Nationhood\u201d campaign, the Singapore Research Nexus hosted a richly informative Heritage Research Roundtable that featured four National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant recipients from FASS and brought fresh scholarly light to lesser-known chapters of Singapore\u2019s past. The full video recording is now available here. 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