Posted in 05 detention, tagged oral history, political detention on October 2009| 1 Comment »
Kevin Blackburn
This article was originally published in the Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 29, 2007.
On a Saturday afternoon, 26 February 2006, over 200, mostly young people, crowded into the Recital Studio of Singapore’s Esplanade Arts Centre to listen to ex-political detainees from the 1960s and 1970s give their side of Singapore’s history. (more…)
Posted in 02 archives & memory II, tagged oral history on February 2008|
Loh Kah Seng
National Archives of Singapore. Memories & Reflections: The Singapore Experience: Documenting a Nation’s History Through Oral History. 2nd edition. Singapore: Oral History Centre, 2007. vii, 194 pp.
The collection of social memories, in a forward-looking nation-state where the vast majority of households are nuclear families without grandparents living with them, is particularly important to ensure that the experiences of elderly Singaporeans are passed down to the younger generations. (more…)
Posted in 02 archives & memory, tagged communism, literature, oral history on January 2008| 2 Comments »
Sai Siew Min, with Lim Cheng Tju
CC Chin: I have my ways. After all, history is not something that can be monopolized by a few individuals. Hundreds of thousands of people were involved in this movement. If I include supporters and sympathizers, there could be a million people involved over such a long time period. Even if you were Chin Peng, there would be a limit to how much you would know. This was a mass-based movement. So the only solution was to return to the grassroots, the people, the masses and the ordinary Party members.
s/pores 