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The story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, and the Tan). It was the Big Five who played a preponderant role not only in transforming Penang into a regional entrepot and a business and financial base, but also in reconfiguring maritime trading patterns and the business orientation of the region in the nineteenth century. Departing from the colonial vantage point, this book examines a web of transnational, hybrid and fluid networks of the Big Five comprising of family relationship, sworn brotherhood, political alliance and business partnerships, which linked Penang and its surrounding states (western Malay states, southwestern Siam, southern Burma, and the north and eastern coasts of Sumatra) together to form one economically unified geographical region, having inextricable links to China and India. With these intertwining networks, the Big Five succeeded in establishing their dominance in all the major enterprises (trade, shipping, cash crop planting, tin mining, opium revenue farms), which constituted the linchpin of Penang's and its region's economy. By disentangling and dissecting this intricate web of networks, this book reveals the rise and decline of the Hokkien mercantile families' nearly century-long economic ascendancy in Penang and its region.

Currently 5th in The Penang Bookshelf's Bestseller List for 2014** The author a former British diplomat now living and working in Malaysia appears to be drawn to aspects of Penang history that are often missed by others. Firstly he tackled Penang under the East India Company and now Penang during and between the two World Wars. After much archival work both in Malaysia and the UK and interviews with Peanangites who lived through these times Andrew Barber has been able to comprehensively chronicle the economic military and social ups and downs which still reverberate in Penang to this day. The 152 page book is illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and ends with appendix listing the names of Japanese who served in Penang and were convicted at war crimes trials a bibliography and population trade shipping and taxation appendices.

Penang is one of the food capitals of Malaysia. However, over time, many Penang heritage dishes have been modified so much that what is served today is just a pale image of the original. The tastes of home-cooked dishes have not been faithfully reproduced from one generation to the next. Similarly, street- food and restaurant recipes have not been faithfully passed from a retiring chef to his successor. This book preserves the Penang heritage food from days of yore, covering home- cooked food, street food and restaurant dishes. Meticulously researched, every recipe is prefaced with heritage information and, together, they trace Penang heritage food to its Thai, Hokkien, Hainanese, Indian and Malay roots. Penang Heritage Food won a national award for best culinary history in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

2006 (First edition 2003). Published by Areca Books, Penang, Malaysia. 26 x 29 cm, 304 pages, over 700 b/w and colour postcards. Penang, Malaysia - once a part of the Straits Settlements and British Malaya. Penang's boom as a seaport on the Far Eastern steamship route, coincided with the rise of the picture postcard at the turn of the 20th century. From this bustling port teeming with travellers and migrants, thousands of postcards of Penang were sent off into the world. These picture postcards give vivid impressions of Penang's centre of commerce and administration, its streets and suburbs, its hill resort and its beaches. With over 700 postcards compiled by Malcolm Wade, this is the largest collection of prewar Penang postcards ever published. The local historical context is researched by Khoo Salma Nasution, author of the best-selling book, 'Streets of George Town, Penang'. This collection serves as a testimony to Penang's rich heritage, as well as a visual resource for researchers, artists, collectors and all those who love Penang.

The story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, and the Tan). It was the Big Five who played a preponderant role not only in transforming Penang into a regional entrepot and a business and financial base, but also in reconfiguring maritime trading patterns and the business orientation of the region in the nineteenth century. Departing from the colonial vantage point, this book examines a web of transnational, hybrid and fluid networks of the Big Five comprising of family relationship, sworn brotherhood, political alliance and business partnerships, which linked Penang and its surrounding states (western Malay states, southwestern Siam, southern Burma, and the north and eastern coasts of Sumatra) together to form one economically unified geographical region, having inextricable links to China and India. With these intertwining networks, the Big Five succeeded in establishing their dominance in all the major enterprises (trade, shipping, cash crop planting, tin mining, opium revenue farms), which constituted the linchpin of Penang's and its region's economy. By disentangling and dissecting this intricate web of networks, this book reveals the rise and decline of the Hokkien mercantile families' nearly century-long economic ascendancy in Penang and its region.

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Penang is one of the food capitals of Malaysia. However, over time, many Penang heritage dishes have been modified so much that what is served today is just a pale image of the original. The tastes of home-cooked dishes have not been faithfully reproduced from one generation to the next. Similarly, street- food and restaurant recipes have not been faithfully passed from a retiring chef to his successor. This book preserves the Penang heritage food from days of yore, covering home- cooked food, street food and restaurant dishes. Meticulously researched, every recipe is prefaced with heritage information and, together, they trace Penang heritage food to its Thai, Hokkien, Hainanese, Indian and Malay roots. Penang Heritage Food won a national award for best culinary history in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

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What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia. She tells the stories of blood donors, their varied motivations, and the paperwork, payment, and other bureaucratic processes involved in blood donation, tracking the interpersonal relations between lab staff and revealing how their work with blood reflects the social, cultural, and political dynamics of modern Malaysia. Carsten follows hospital workers into factories and community halls on blood drives and brings readers into the operating theater as a machine circulates a bypass patient's blood. Throughout, she foregrounds blood's symbolic power, uncovering the processes that make the hospital, the blood bank, the lab, and science itself work. In this way, blood becomes a privileged lens for understanding the entanglements of modern life.

Established in 1885 by the Sarkies brothers, the Eastern & Oriental (E&O) Hotel, and in subsequent years its equally famous sister grand hotels the Raffles in Singapore, and the Strand in Rangoon attracted the likes of Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and Hermann Hesse.By 1927, the E&O was being hailed as 'The premier hotel east of the Suez', boasting more than a hundred rooms, 40 of them with adjoining bathrooms, hot and cold running water, individual telephones and a 842-foot seafront, 'the longest of any hotel in the world'.Today, more than a century since its establishment, having survived two world wars, and more reversals of fortunes than it has had changes of ownership, the E&O has reclaimed its legacy.It is thus timely that its story is told at last, so that all may appreciate why, as one writer has put it, 'those who have once visited this famous hotel, regard the E&O as a haven to be sought again and again, as the traveller to the home of his affection'.

Established in 1885 by the Sarkies brothers, the Eastern & Oriental (E&O) Hotel, and in subsequent years its equally famous sister grand hotels the Raffles in Singapore, and the Strand in Rangoon attracted the likes of Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and Hermann Hesse.By 1927, the E&O was being hailed as 'The premier hotel east of the Suez', boasting more than a hundred rooms, 40 of them with adjoining bathrooms, hot and cold running water, individual telephones and a 842-foot seafront, 'the longest of any hotel in the world'.Today, more than a century since its establishment, having survived two world wars, and more reversals of fortunes than it has had changes of ownership, the E&O has reclaimed its legacy.It is thus timely that its story is told at last, so that all may appreciate why, as one writer has put it, 'those who have once visited this famous hotel, regard the E&O as a haven to be sought again and again, as the traveller to the home of his affection'.

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Hardcover. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesley's friendship with Willie grows, the more clearly she see him as he is - a man who has no choice but to mask his true self.As Willie prepares to leave and face his demons, Lesley confides secrets of her own, including how she came to know the charismatic Dr Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary fighting to overthrow the imperial dynasty of China. And more scandalous still, she reveals her connection to the case of an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts - a tragedy drawn from fact, and worthy of fiction.From Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors is a masterful novel of public morality and private truth a century ago. Based on real events it is a drama of love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire. The anticipated novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of â Living.â Each teacher delivers himself of a great â Generality,â each great Generality launches a new great â Adventure,â from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, â it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.â

Excerpt from Sunny Singapore: An Account of the Place and Its People, With a Sketch of the Results of Missionary WorkSuppose we enter these straits from the Indian Ocean, as the earliest navigators did, and as passenger and trading vessels bound East still do, we pass the island of Penang and Province Wellesley a narrow strip of the adjoining mainland. Next, we come to the Dinding Islands, to the territory of Malacca, with its Chief town of the same name and then to Singapore, the name of both island and City.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The British Straits Settlements, established on the Malay Peninsula in the nineteenth century comprised mainly of the colonies of Singapore, Penang and Malacca. The merchant class of these territories was dominated by migrants from southern China, and many became wealthy, creating a demand for material culture from their ancestral home. Straits Chinese porcelain, or nonya wares, were developed to address this market. Outrageously colourful and decorative, these uniquely exuberant wares were ignored by connoisseurs for many years, but have more recently become prized collectors' items. The present guide provides a detailed outline of the history, characteristics and use of these porcelains, and includes valuable details on reign and shop marks and dating. 144 pp., 81 col. ill.'s, 2 maps. Size: 29 x 21 cm.

Exuberant, ornate and colorful, Straits Chinese porcelain is a variety of polychrome enameled export ware made to specification in China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This lovely porcelain was made for the Straits-born Chinese or Peranakan communities in Penang, Malacca and Singapore and was used on festive occasions such as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and Chinese New Year.Peranakan Chinese Porcelain is illustrated with over 800 full-color photographs of these distinctive porcelain types. Supported by text and photographs on many related aspects of the characteristic Straits Chinese culture, such as architecture, dress and cuisine, Peranakan Chinese Porcelain is a wonderful contribution to the history of the Straits Chinese.

Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither. He discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But at a price!