Citizen Historian Updated! (August 2007)

By Admin

Dear subscribers, friends and history enthusiasts

citizen historian is updated for August! We have a wide spread of articles for your reading pleasure this month. =========================

This year, Singapore is the City of Possibilities. Sarah Ismail speculates about the possibilities in the Singapore Story, after watching the Dim Sum Dollies and Gentarasa tell their versions of Singapore history, from their points of view.

http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/30/singapore-story-possibilities/

Minami Orihara opens a Japanese woman’s magazine, and finds herself enlightened. She writes about the comeback of spirituality in Japan and its connection with socio-political events in “Fashion, Glamour and Spirtuality.”

http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/29/fashion-glamour-and-spirituality/

Mao is dead, but people are still talking. Just who is he, great man, failed economist, or simply whoever the political establishment and the person talking wants him to be? Ng Eng Ping investigates the mystery of the multiple Maos in “The Path of Demystifying: Mao in the Post-Maoist Era”
http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/29/the-path-of-demystifying-mao-in-the-post-maoist-era/

Researching History
Fumihito Yamamoto, grad student and repeat contributor, tells you what to look out for when digging up the past in the land of the rising sun in ”Researching History: Archives in Japan”.
http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/29/researching-history-archives-in-japan/

Dinesh Sathisan, self-confessed bibliophile and Krispy Kreme doughnut in hand, finds his way around the British Library on his summer research trip.

http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/29/researching-history-british-library-in-london/

Missing pieces
At the same time, Dinesh’s summer of books has led him into a winter of discontent, as he wonders if Singapore can ever be an artshub without a vibrant second-hand book culture in “Reading Culture in Singapore: Searching for (Good) Second-Hand Bookstores”
http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/29/reading-culture-in-singapore-searching-for-good-second-hand-bookstores/

S/pores contributer and educationist Lim Cheng Tju wonders whatever happened to the hound dogs and their blue suede shoes, in “Elvis and Singapore”
http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/29/elvis-and-singapore/

Reviews
Few sources are available about artist Georgette Chen’s early life, but that doesn’t stop playwright Ng Yi-Sheng. Sarah Ismail has a look at what artists can do to fill the gap when historians aren’t enough.
http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/08/30/review-georgette/

Other Georgette Chen-related pieces in citizen historian
http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/06/30/georgette-the-musical-an-art-curators-thoughts/
http://citizenhistorian.com/2007/06/29/personal-faces-of-georgette-chen/

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The editors would also like to take this opportunity to thank Dinesh Sathisan for his help in putting this month’s update together. Dinesh was part of the initial group of postgrads who met up to discuss the creation of citizen historian some three months ago, and helped in soliciting and editing several articles in this month’s edition. Thanks for your help and understanding!

We hope you enjoy reading! Please feel free to post your comments / feedback or email us!

Best wishes
The editors, citizen historian

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