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Visiting the ‘Liverpool of the East’: Singapore's place in tours of Empire
This article explores the idea of Singapore's repute as the ‘Liverpool of the East’ and the depictions of Britain's maritime empire in Asia. It does so via two important cruises related to the British Empire. The first is the Royal Tour of 1901 and the second cruise was the Empire Cruise of 1923 to 1924. By examining the reception afforded to both royal and naval visitors, this article argues that we have insights into what it meant for Singapore as a port city in a British maritime and imperial network. This article explores how Singapore was depicted as a maritime hub through these tours and concludes with a reflection that similar descriptions still hold a place in modern descriptions of Singapore.
Journal Article
Book Reviews: Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and His Business Network
A book review is presented.
Book Review
Book Reviews: Asia. Piracy and surreptitious activities in the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas, 1600-1840
Sandy Liu's chapter on the Chinese begins with some general premises which could have been better refined (the stereotype of the Chinese as 'industrious', for instance), but then goes on to provide a good survey of Chinese involvement in regional violence -- which encompassed dealing in weapons as well as the relatively well-documented secret societies. [...]the idea of raiding or trading in particular goods that had spiritual properties is raised at least twice (for instance, p. 101) but never fully developed, and an anthropological approach to how maritime raiding is remembered in local rituals is tantalisingly short (pp. 88-9). The chapter by Teddy Sim on the fluid identity of the Portuguese and their engagement in both legal and illicit maritime trading makes the compelling argument that this shifting legality was part and parcel of not only a region in flux, but symptomatic of individuals who were operating in the wake of a waning Estado da Ãndia.
Book Review