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Welcome to the archive of s/pores e-journal!

This archive maintains s/pores’ original appearance from its founding in 2007 until its 20th issue in September 2021.

In December 2021, the s/pores website was updated with a brand new look. As one of the earliest online platforms for Singapore studies, it seemed important that the earlier web aesthetics of s/pores be archived here.

While this archive will not receive further updates, new issues will continue to be published at the updated website, https://s-pores.com. Look forward to having you there!

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no. 20 > “Bicentennial 2019 Biennale”

no. 20>“Bicentennial 2019 Biennale”

Editorial: Bicentennial 2019 Biennale

Preview Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History (Ethos Books)

Sai Siew Min > Updating the Narrative: a Dialogue Between the Former Coloniser and Colonised

Faris Joraimi > Redoing and Undoing the Colonial Pageant: Dialogues with the Raffles Statues

Joseph Tham > Are You One Of Them? –  Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme

Cecily Cheo > Looking at Song-Ming Ang at the National Museum, Singapore

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no. 19 > “Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore”

no. 19>“Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore”

Editorial: Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore

Chan Wai Han > A fierce Cantonese woman – growing up in Singapore in the 60s

Fong Hoe Fang > Going to Where the Silence Is

Kevin YL Tan > Standing Up and Being Counted: Lessons from my Childhood

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no. 18 > “Exploring Disability Studies”

no. 18>“Exploring Disability Studies”

Kuansong Zhuang, Victor >Editorial – Exploring Disability Studies: Reflections on methodology

Alvan Yap > Looking at ‘d’ art: Fab or fad?

Jacqueline Woo > Cripping the Church: A Personal Reflection on Disability and Religion

Fiona Tan > Universal Design: Beyond the exclusive “Barrier-Free” labels

Phoebe Tay > Being d/Deaf in Singapore: A Personal Reflection of Deaf Culture and Identity

Nurul Fadiah Johari > My experiences and perspectives on the lack of empathy in psychiatry

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s-pores special highlight> Interview with Mr Yeng Pway Ngon

Mr Yeng in Grassroots Book Room. Image Courtesy of Tan Waln Ching

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no. 17 > “History and Critical Pedagogy”

no. 17>“History and Critical Pedagogy”


Introduction to the 17th Issue: History and Critical Pedagogy

Chua Beng Huat > Editorial: Critical Pedagogy

Sonny Liew > The Hunt for Mas Selamat

Sonny Liew > Beauty World

Philip Holden > Writing Emergency: Teaching Singapore Literature in an Historical Frame

Joseph Tham > History Education, Graphic Novels & Historical Thinking

Angelia Poon > Teaching the Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

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no. 16 > “Being Young in the 1950s”

no. 16>“Being Young in the 1950s”

Edgar Liao > “Introduction to Constructing Nanyang Childhood”

Edgar Liao > “Civics for Young Malayans: Colonial Educator E H G Dobby in Singapore”

Interview with Mr Arthur Yap – an English-educated youth in 1950s Singapore

Ho Jin Yee > “In His Own Words: Writings of the young S. Rajaratnam”

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no. 15 > “bookshops”

no. 15>“bookshops”

Our 15th Issue – “bookshops” – Celebrating 10 years of s/pores

Faris Joraimi > “Wardah”

Fadli Fawzi and Faris Joraimi > “The Intellectual Legacy of Kampung Glam”

Interview with Mr Yeo San Chai ( Yeo Oi Sang) of Xinhua Cultural Enterprises (S) Pte Ltd (English Translation and Mandarin Original)

Tan Waln Ching > “City Book Room” by Tan Waln Ching (English and Chinese)

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s-pores commentary No. 1> “Some Men and a Red Box; A Woman and Her Handbag”

adheng310315e_2x(Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s Red box, Straits Times 31 March 2015)

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no. 14 > “Yang Tersirat”

no. 14> “Yang Tersirat”

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Fadli Fawzi and Khairulanwar Zaini > Editorial

Alfian Sa’at > The Absent Mother: Malay Cinema, Cultural Memory and Mediated Spectatorship

Khairulanwar Zaini > Reading Resistance in the Malay Heritage Centre

Fadli Fawzi > Remembering the Malay Left

Nurhaizatul Jamil > API, AWAS, GERAM: Shamsiah Fakeh’s struggle for Malaya’s independence

Fairoz Ahmad > Ideology and Utopia in Al Imam

Siti Hazirah Binte Mohamad > “Living the lives of Hanyut”: The Construction of Malay Youth Delinquency in Singapore

Annaliza Bakri > Sebutan Baku and the need to redefine the limits of culture

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no. 13 – National Day 2013 Special Issue > Objectum – an exhibition

no. 13.2 › Objectum – an exhibition

Editor: 17 March 2014: As a follow-up feature, s/pores is pleased to feature an essay written by Wong Lee Min on the 2nd exhibition in curatingLAB: PHASE 03 – Objectum

1. Cover Page of the Exhibition Pamphlet

Objectum: An Exhibition on the Shifting Meanings of Daily-Life Museum Objects>

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no. 13 – National Day 2013 Special Issue > after|thought – an exhibition

no. 13.1 › after|thought – an exhibition

Editor: In commemoration of National Day 2013, s/pores is pleased to present the afterthoughts of a recent art exhibition by a group of young curators and artists. Their theme and topic? – 9 August 1965.

Editor 24 Aug: Added a review of a new album LUCIFUGOUS (X’HO + ARCN TEMPL) that was launched on 9 August 1965.

1. Introduction>

2. On Representation>

3. Art and Space>

4. after|thought at Oxford>

5. Review of LUCIFUGOUS (X’HO + ARCN TEMPL) >> Senile Dementia>

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no. 12 > SeX Spaces in Singapore: ENcounters, INhabitants, and IDentities

no. 12 › Sex Spaces in Singapore: Encounters, Inhabitants, and Identities

Geylang Road (source: Terence Chong)

Introduction > Terence Chong

Public Morality in Sex Spaces> Vanessa Ho

Is Joo Chiat’s ‘Little Vietnam’ a thing of the past? – Essay and Photo Essay > Nicolas Lainez

Social Visits and Special Passes: Carceral Spaces of Migrant Sexual Labour in Singapore> Sallie Yea

Ethnographic Sex Work Research in Singapore: Who gets to speak? > Lu Huiyi

Imaginary Frontiers and Deferred Masculinity: Singapore Working Class Men in Batam > Terence Chong

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no. 11 > the pOp CuLTuRE IS-U

no. 11 › The pOp cUltURe Is-U

Introduction: Pop Culture in Singapore › Chua Beng Huat

An Interview with Sonny Liew › Lim Cheng Tju

“Model student” TV: The Inter-school Debates and the Politics of Education › Clarissa Oon

Review of Catacombs › X’Ho

Review of Sun Worshipper › Joseph Tham

A Stone’s Throw Away › Leslie Low

The Early Comics of Eric Khoo › Lim Cheng Tju

ART: An Interview with Cheo Chai Hiang › Yvonne Low

Shaun’s Home Parties: A Photo Essay, with Introduction by Lim Cheng Tju ›

Review of Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise › Choy Kam Leong Larry

The Making of Ten Sticks and One Rice › Oh Yong Hwee and Koh Hong Teng

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no. 10 › so what

Interview with › Alvin Tan

Interview with › John Gee

Interview with › Corinna Lim

Routes not Roots › Philip Holden

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no. 9 › the arts II : Tan THSketchesTSL

Sketches from Prison › Teo Soh Lung
The Seventies: Transition from Cultural Desert to Global City › Robert Yeo
Reclaiming Literature for Singapore › Alvin Pang
Eulogy for Fang Xiu › Chng Seok Tin
Theatre and its Publics, and Everything Else › Richard Chua
of love, and sweets › John Low
Meaning/Making A Circuit Of Cheo Chai-Hiang’s The Story of Money › Isabel Ching
Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case › Gwee Li Sui
Review: Singapura Uber Alles › Joseph Tham
› in memoriam: Tan Jing Quee (1939-2011)
Merger and Malaysia (1961) › Tan Jing Quee

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no. 8 › intellectualssandcastle

The Shifting Sands of Time: Boo Junfeng’s Sandcastle as Filmic History › Lim Cheng Tju and Hong Lysa
Portrait of a Modernist Poet: Lin Fang › Chiu Weili
Reading Kuo Pao Kun’s Early Leftist Plays › Clarissa Oon
“Chinese-educated” Intellectuals: A Case Study of The Tangent › Kelvin Chia
Suspending/escaping Race: A Civil Society Experience › Constance Singam
The Trouble with ‘Idealism’: Reflections on Intellectual Vocation and Moral Reasoning › Kwok Kian Woon
Review: Realism in Asia › Lim Cheng Tju
Review: Beyond the Blue Gate › Philip Holden

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no. 7 › men in whiteMIW Book

Forum on Men in Black or White: History as Media Event in Singapore › Chua Beng Huat
From People’s Action Party to Men in White › Philip Holden
What a Book! What a Launch! What a Story! › Tan Tarn How
Men in White and the forever missing handshake › Hong Lysa
Review: Making and Unmaking the Asylum › Liew Kai Khiun

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no. 6 › the arts I : Tan THwolfnotes

Culture and the Arts ‘After’ Kuo Pao Kun › C. J. W.-L. Wee
For wolfnotes › Lee Tzu Pheng
Third Stage › Wong Souk Yee
“But there is nothing here to shoot…” › Tay Kay Chin
Raising the Subject › Jason Wee
Censure and Censor › Loretta Chen
National Songs Revisited › Tan Shzr Ee
First-World Economy, Third-World Culture › Michelle Loh
Review: +65 Indie Underground › Joseph Tham

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no. 5 › detentionthat-we-may-dream-again

A Public Oral History of the Singapore Left in 2006 › Michael Fernandez and Tan Jing Quee
Hide-and-Seek History › Teng Qian Xi
Ex-Political Detainee Forum at Singapore in 2006 › Kevin Blackburn
Forgetting Detention › Sai Siew Min
Review: Dark Folke › Ang Song Ming

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no. 4 › if : Tan Pin Pinhome

Once Bonded › Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Reminiscences on a HDB Point Block › Ho Weng Hin
学语以外 : Beyond Language Learning › 李慧玲 : Lee Huay Leng

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no. 3 › commemorationMK Rajakumar

Aggression in Asia (1954) › MK Rajakumar and Poh Soo Kai
Speech at the Memorial Gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar › Poh Soo Kai
M.K. Rajakumar: A Life Well Lived › Tan Jing Quee
That He Shall Not Die a Second Death › Edgar Liao
The Enigma of A. Samad Ismail › Tan Jing Quee
Hankering for National Heroes › Hong Lysa
The Making of the Singapore History Gallery: Some Personal Reflections › Mark Ravinder Frost
David Marshall: A Bittersweet Remembrance › Daniel PS Goh
Review: 100 Greatest: Singapore 60s › Joseph Tham
Singapore in Mid-twentieth Century: The Deep Divide › CN Chen

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no. 2 › archives & memoryWang Gungwu

Introduction to “Learning Me Your Language” › Philip Holden
Learning Me Your Language › Wang Gungwu
Trial and Error in Malayan Poetry › Wang Gungwu
Three Faces of Night … Moon Thoughts › Wang Gungwu
Archive Fever … in Singapore: An Interview with CC Chin › Sai Siew Min
Approaching Life and Death: History and Memory in Interviews With Individuals Formerly Suffering from Leprosy in Singapore › Loh Kah Seng
Once Upon a Time, a Mendicant Professor in Singapore: Remembering the Enright Affair (November 1960) › Edgar Liao
Usman Awang in Singapore › Tan Jing Quee
Whose invisible city? Articulating Singapore’s pasts in Invisible City › Hong Lysa
Narrating the Nation: Thirty Years of A History of Singapore Conference Report › PJ Thum

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› archives & memory IIBTC

An Interview with Wang Gungwu (in the mid 1980s) › Robert Yeo
New University, Three Generations: China, Malaya, Singapore, 1949-2007 › Wang Gungwu
Review: Memories & Reflections › Loh Kah Seng

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no. 1 › inaugurationFang's Memoir

“A Subaltern Perspective on History” (人下人的历史观): Reading Fang Zhuang Bi’s (方壮壁) Memoir › Sai Siew Min
A Personal Journey In Search Of Fajar › Lim Cheng Tju
Huang Kaide’s ‘Our Memories’ › Kwee Hui Kian
Interpreting National Language Class › Daniel PS Goh
The continuing saga of Singapore’s Story › Hong Lysa
In Memory of Linda Chen (1928-2002) › Tan Jing Quee
Ho Piao: A Personal Recollection and Appreciation › Tan Jing Quee
Education at Large: An Exhibition on Student Activities and Activism In Singapore, 1945-1965 › Francis Lim Khek Gee
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    • 13 after l thought
    • 14 "Yang Tersirat"
    • 15 bookshops
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    • 17 History and Critical Pedagogy
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