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Author : Salma Nasution Khoo
Publisher : Areca Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9839886002
Author : Jean Elizabeth DeBernardi
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9971694166
Author : Salma Nasution Khoo
Publisher : IIED
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Public-private sector cooperation
ISBN : 9781843691884
Author : Ric Francis,Colin Ganley
Publisher : Areca Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9834283407
"Which city once had the smallest trolley-bus in the world? Where do you find the first funicular railway in Southeast Asia? How do you recognize a trolley-bus pole? Where is Tramway Road?" "With over 100 old photographs, maps and illustrations, this book gives an overview of the various forms of public transport used in George Town from 1880s to 1963, and the role this transport played in the development of the growth of George Town and Penang." "Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established its own electric supply, it took over the tram service and started the electric trams in George Town in 1906. This gave the local population excellent public transport around George Town, with one line going up to Ayer Itam. In the late 1920s, the Municipality replaced trams with trolley-buses, experimenting for a while with re-conditioned double-deckers from London Transport!" "The Municipality also operated two railways - firstly, the Penang Hill Railway which was considered an engineering marvel when it was first built, and secondly, the electric railway which transported supplies and tin ingots for Penang's foremost smelting works."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Julia De Bierre
Publisher : Areca Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9834283423
Author : Ooi Kee Beng,Goh Ban Lee
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814279697
Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented at the Penang Outlook Forum 2009, held on 1-2 June 2009 at the E&O Hotel in Penang. A few others have been added to complement those at the conference. At present, comprehensive and authoritative studies on Penang's current economic conditions are a rarity. This book is thus an effort to correct that lack. Evidence does suggest that the state had not been doing well in the first half of the first decade of the new millennium. Being a small state situated relatively far away from the administrative capital of Putrajaya, Penang has to be economically innovative if it is to regain its place at the forefront of Malaysian development. The relationship between the state and the federal government remains a vital matter.
Author : François Ruegg,Andrea Boscoboinik
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783643800626
The articles collected here trace the intellectual journey of Christian Giordano, head of the Social Anthropology Institute at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. The reader will be transported to places Giordano has explored, loved, or merely visited, from Sicily to Malaysia, from Switzerland to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Each article illustrates a facet of his work. The journey starts with biographical sketches and continues through different fields of Political Anthropology (Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Rural Studies, Trust, Postcolonial Studies, Honour). It ends with reflections on the use and abuse of Anthropology.
Author : Choon Hoe Tan
Publisher : Areca Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 9834077432
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264089457
This publication reviews higher education and economic development in the State of Penang, Malaysia. It analyzes how the higher education system impacts the region's economic development.
Author : Jin Seng Cheah
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789671061718
By the late 19th century, Penang had become a thriving port trading in rubber, spices and tin. Its prosperity attracted immigrants from around the world and the island was a rich melting pot of Chinese, Indians, Malays, Europeans and many other peoples. The postcards reproduced in this book are drawn from the huge collection of Penang-born Professor Cheah Jin Seng, the author of Singapore: 500 Early Postcards, Malaya: 500 Early Postcards, Perak: 300 Early Postcards and Selangor: 300 Early Postcards.This title in the Early Postcards series will present a diverse array of picture postcards of Penang -- including of its capital George Town, now a World Heritage site -- from the 1890s to the 1970s.
Author : James Dugan
Publisher : Walkabout photo guides
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
✓ Want to take great travel photos? ✓ Need a guide specifically for travel photography? Planning a trip to Penang to explore historic George Town and the island's rich heritage? Want to know how to capture great photos for social media, travel blog, or to simply enjoy? Our travel photography guides focus on the information you need: - Detailed maps and diagrams - Photos, including the DSLR camera settings and the exact location where the photo was taken - Tips on planning your journey - Logistical information to ensure that you’re at the right place at the right time - Ways to get the photo whilst avoiding the crowds We've captured what you need to know to photograph: - Clan houses, gathering places for Chinese communities that settled in Penang - British colonial architecture reflecting Penang's historic influence in SE Asia - Religious sites including Buddhist temples, mosques, and Hindu temples - Shophouses with their gorgeous façades and architectural adaptions - Street art spread throughout George Town and beyond - Street food, known as some of the best in the region - Exploring the natural beauty of the island Our guides help you save valuable time in researching and planning, allowing you to focus on your photos.
Author : Neil Khor,Khoo Salma Nasution,Loh Wei Leng,Yeoh Seng Guan
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971694234
From its beginnings in the late eighteenth century, the vibrant colonial port of Penang attracted a diverse range of peoples, enabled pioneering commercial enterprises, and fomented inter-ethnic collaboration and inter-cultural borrowings. The island came to be known as the 'Pearl of the Orient', and for many travellers it was their first port of call in Southeast Asia. In the early nineteenth century, Singapore displaced Penang in international trade, but the island remained a major focus of regional trade. For this reason, the story of Penang's relations with the Malay Peninsula and other parts of Southeast Asia reveal a great deal about conditions within the region.
Author : Ong Jin Teong
Publisher : Landmark Books Pte Ltd
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9789814189972
This book won the Gourmand World Cookbook award for best national culinary history, and has proven to be a classic. Over the years, many Penang heritage dishes have been modified so much that what is served today is just a pale image of the original. With the absence of recorded recipes, modifications of family dishes are inevitable due to the preferences and dislikes of members of the household, and hence the original tastes were not faithfully reproduced from one generation to the next. Similarly, for some restaurants, the original recipes and the tastes were not faithfully passed from a retiring chef to his successor. This book preserves the Penang heritage food from days of yore, covering home-cooked food, restaurant and café food, and hawker food. Meticulously researched, the author has recorded the recipes of his grandmothers, mother, aunts, uncles and cousins. Every time-tested recipe is prefaced with heritage information and, together, they trace Penang heritage food to its Thai, Hokkien, Hainanese, Indian and Malay roots.
Author : Wong Yee Tuan
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814695503
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."e;Wong Yee Tuan's study of the five clans of Penang represents a major breakthrough in the study of the Malayan Chinese. He documents an extremely important aspect of the nineteenth-century Asian diaspora, exposing the intricate links between families, businesses, secret societies, revenue farms and public life of some of the key groups of Chinese in Penang and northern Malaya. The book weaves together the various strands of overseas Chinese life not only in Malaya, but also in the Netherlands Indies, Siam and China. Most importantly, it shows the process by which the Chinese leaders gained political, economic and social power as well as the way by which these powers were lost."e;- Carl A. Trocki, Emeritus Professor, Asian Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"e;This volume can be situated within a growing historiographical current whereby regional studies of connections, networks and interactions are gradually transcending national histories. Incorporating commercial, ethnic and social elements, the history presented can be concurrently seen as a business case study, a sociological exploration, a political economy treatise and an inquiry into Hokkien networking. Wong Yee Tuan is to be congratulated on this signal study in how local, national and broader regional histories can be integrated."e;- Geoffrey Wade, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University"e;By aligning family, socio-political and business interests, the leading Penang Hokkien clans centralized their 'home port' as a hub of regional commercial networks, thus successfully extending the trading colonies of Chinese diaspora westward to the edge of the Indian Ocean. Wong has fastidiously researched and compellingly proven this, with a clear eye for relevant cross-cultural collaborations with indigenous and international actors. The important legacy of the 'Big Five' clanhouses is now firmly embedded in the George Town World Heritage Site, inciting further inquiry into the cultural formation of collective entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia."e;- Khoo Salma Nasution, Heritage Advocate and Local Historian, Penang
Author : Choon Hoe Tan
Publisher : Areca Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 9834077408
