Featured Books
Sutan Puasa, Founder of Kuala Lumpur
Who was the founder of Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia? Textbook history credits the Bugis chief of Klang, Raja Abdullah, while the Chinese regard the third Kapitan China, Yap Ah Loy, as the legendary founder. But closer examination
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Where Australia Collides with Asia
This book follows the epic voyages of natural history of Continent Australia, Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
The voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago with its raft of Gondwanaland …
Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge
Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge brings together the work of eleven distinguished scholars in efforts to recover and preserve cultural-historical knowledge embedded in the fabric of the city of George Town and articulate the significance and reach of the …
Spice Islands
Cloves and nutmeg are indigenous to the Spice Islands of Eastern Indonesia; this book tells of the many uses of these exotic spices and the history of their trade over a period of more than 2,000 years.
It follows the …
Penang Nyonya Colouring Book
This book delightfully depicts the items typically found in a Penang Nyonya’s life and household in the early twentieth century. Colour these beautiful designs as you please, while learning about a unique culture.
My Ah Mah (paternal grandmother) was the
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East Indies
In 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, his small Portuguese fleet reached India and became the first Europeans to sail the Eastern Seas. Over the next 100 years the Portuguese spread their trading network in search …
The Resilience of Tradition
In The Resilience of Tradition: Malay Allusions in Contemporary Architecture, the authors attempt to address rhetorical questions like how and to what extent contemporary Malaysian architecture is influenced by Malay culture, values and forms, and in what way is …
Archipelago – A Journey Across Indonesia
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago nation comprising as many as 17,000 islands spread over the same distance as Los Angeles to New York, or Perth to Sydney. Indonesia is also the most culturally diverse nation on the planet and …
Memoirs of a Malaysian Eco-Activist
Memoirs of a Malaysian Eco-Activist records how I found my raison d’être in the form of environmental activism and human rights movements. During my over four-decade stint as an ecological activist, I founded two environmental NGOs, pushed for numerous eco-friendly …
The Arts of Southeast Asia from the SOAS Collections
Beautifully illustrated, The Arts of Southeast Asia from the SOAS Collections highlights a variety of material relating to Southeast Asia drawn from the rich collections of SOAS University of London. With a wide chronological span, they are diverse in nature,
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The Sustainability Shift: Refashioning Malaysia’s Future
The Sustainability Shift: Refashioning Malaysia’s Future discusses the specific ecological threats facing Malaysia and the intellectual as well as practical ‘shift’ required for a more sustainable future. The book explores themes of environmental degradation, climate change and imminent ecological collapse …
Road To Dawn《夜‧明》unabridged DVD (2016)
Road To Dawn: Newly reissued and unabridged DVD (2016)
The movie Road to Dawn (2007) is based on the story of Dr Sun Yat Sen as a revolutionary in Penang, Malaysia, in the year 1910. Although it incorporates fictional elements, …
Sejarah Bergambar Seberang Perai / Province Wellesley, A Pictorial History
Beneath its simple and unadorned title – Sejarah Bergambar Seberang Perai (Province Wellesley, A Pictorial History) – this much-anticipated publication more than justifies the oft-used phrase that a picture is worth a thousand words. History is subjective, and personal …
Memories Of Dr. Wu Lien Teh: Plague Fighter
Originally published in 1995, this special edition has been reprinted on the occasion of the 2nd Dr Wu Lien-Teh Global Commemorative Symposium held in Penang on the 23rd and 24th of July 2016.
Memories Of Dr. Wu Lien Teh: Plague …
The Chulia in Penang: Patronage and Place-Making around the Kapitan Kling Mosque, 1786–1957
By Khoo Salma Nasution
Winner, ICAS Book Prize 2015, Colleagues’ Choice Award
Wanderer to Brunei and Beyond
To Brunei and Beyond is the fourth book from the pen of a writer known as ‘Pengembara’. It has been eagerly awaited by readers of three previous titles which describe journeys in Brunei Darussalam and the Malaysian Borneo territories of …
Penang Hill Funicular Railway – Remembering an engineering feat 1923-2010
Penang Hill is the oldest hill station in Malaysia and also the only one with a funicular railway. Completed in I923, the Penang Hill Funicular Railway was the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, and its tunnel is one …
Gayatri Rajapatni: The Woman Behind the Glory of Majapahit
Gayatri Rajapatni: The Woman Behind the Glory of Majapahit by Earl Drake imaginatively re-creates Gayatri’s world, placing her at the centre of Majapahit’s great history. Rich in historical detail and dramatic prose, Drake’s story sheds light on one of Indonesia’s …
Iversen: Architect of Ipoh and Modern Malaya
By Ruth Iversen Rollitt
50 Best Malaysian Titles for International Rights 2015
Iversen: Architect of Ipoh and Modern Malaya, is a biography of the Danish architect B.M. Iversen (1906–1976). It is illustrated with hundreds of original photographs, building plans and …
Redoubtable Reformer: The life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim
By Francis Cooray & Khoo Salma Nasution.
Foreword by Tan Sri Khoo Kay Kim.
Growing up during the era of British colonial expansion in Malaya, Cheah Cheang Lim believed that economic progress should yield the fruit and flower of social …
Rumah: An Ode to the Malay House
By Tenas Effendy.
Foreword by Dato’ Dr Ken Yeang.
Rumah is a collection of old Riau–Malay rhymed sayings originally gathered and published by Tenas Effendy. Referred to in Malay literature as ‘Ungkapan’, these eloquent stanzas depict the Malay house as …
Plague Fighter: The autobiography of a modern Chinese physician. Wu Lien-Teh
By Wu Lien-Teh.
Known as the ‘Plague Fighter’ and ‘the man who beat the Black Death’, Dr. Wu Lien-Teh (1879—1960) laid the foundations of the modern medical service in China. The son of a Taishan migrant from China, he was …
Living Landscapes, Connected Communities: Culture, Environment and Change Across Asia
By Justine Vaz and Narumol Aphinives (editors), with almost 50 contributors from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines
50 Best Malaysian Titles for International Rights 2015
ACROSS ASIA, people are coming to terms with the impacts of …
Penang Trams, Trolleybuses and Railways
By Ric Francis & Colin Ganley.
Which city once had the smallest service trolley-bus in the world? Where can you find the first funicular railway in Southeast Asia? How do you recognize a trolley-bus pole? Where is Tramway Road? With …
Sun Yat Sen in Penang
By Khoo Salma Nasution.
Foreword by Lynn Pan.
As a young revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat Sen travelled widely and lived amongst the Chinese communities abroad, including Japan, North America and Southeast Asia. He mobilized the overseas Chinese with the dream …
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