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Lot of interesting sources on NDL online collections are embedded in scanned US occupation period files. Example: the 日満支 工業年鑑 for 昭和15 is only available as part of evidence for war crimes trials here: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/12922208/1/4 while elsewhere only up to 昭和13 (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/ja/pid/1115528) #japan #primarysources #asianists
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Lot of interesting sources on NDL online collections are embedded in scanned US occupation period files. Example: the 日満支 工業年鑑 for 昭和15 is only available as part of evidence for war crimes trials here: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/12922208/1/4 while elsewhere only up to 昭和13 (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/ja/pid/1115528) #japan #primarysources #asianists
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Lots of updates to this page dedicated to the old“Chinese Literature” journal with its thousands of English translations. Over 200 issues online from 1950s-80s. Added “Search”, “Explore” and an author table with pinyin/hanzi versions of a few dozen of the over a thousand authors. https://froginawell.net/chinese-literature/ #china #literature #asianists
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Lots of updates to this page dedicated to the old“Chinese Literature” journal with its thousands of English translations. Over 200 issues online from 1950s-80s. Added “Search”, “Explore” and an author table with pinyin/hanzi versions of a few dozen of the over a thousand authors. https://froginawell.net/chinese-literature/ #china #literature #asianists
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I added a section to our Frog in a Well Primary Source guide to Korean History with some links to open access copies of volumes with Japanese statistics from colonial Korea - https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/primary-sources-modern-korean-history/#japanese #japan #korea #primarysources #histodons #asianists
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I added a section to our Frog in a Well Primary Source guide to Korean History with some links to open access copies of volumes with Japanese statistics from colonial Korea - https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/primary-sources-modern-korean-history/#japanese #japan #korea #primarysources #histodons #asianists
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A source frequency reference table for the Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (the "Little Red Book"). Showing which Mao texts were quoted the most. https://froginawell.net/frog/2024/08/a-few-notes-on-works-by-mao/#table #china #histodons #asianists
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A source frequency reference table for the Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (the "Little Red Book"). Showing which Mao texts were quoted the most. https://froginawell.net/frog/2024/08/a-few-notes-on-works-by-mao/#table #china #histodons #asianists
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Posted "Swimming in the Sea of Mao’s Works" - some notes on works by Mao as I prepare to teach China's Revolutions again this fall semester. Posted on @froginawell https://froginawell.net/frog/2024/08/a-few-notes-on-works-by-mao/ #china #histodons #asianists
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Posted "Swimming in the Sea of Mao’s Works" - some notes on works by Mao as I prepare to teach China's Revolutions again this fall semester. Posted on @froginawell https://froginawell.net/frog/2024/08/a-few-notes-on-works-by-mao/ #china #histodons #asianists
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Some students in my China Revolutions honours module are studying Chinese. I thought I would give them some flashcards of useful terms related to the history covered by the module (late Qing to 1989) which I put here on Frog in a Well:
https://froginawell.net/games/terms/
Are there any important terms/slogans etc. I have left out that you think I should include (mostly Maoist China)?
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Some students in my China Revolutions honours module are studying Chinese. I thought I would give them some flashcards of useful terms related to the history covered by the module (late Qing to 1989) which I put here on Frog in a Well:
https://froginawell.net/games/terms/
Are there any important terms/slogans etc. I have left out that you think I should include (mostly Maoist China)?
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Stumbled across journalist Jacques Marcuse's 1967 "Peking Papers" memoir. Suffers from the typical issues with more snarky westerners in Maoist China, but Ch 30 overview Lei Feng campaign is quite funny, especially on Lei Feng's "reincarnations" like Wang Jie 王杰. https://archive.org/details/pekingpapers0000jacq #china #asianists #histodons
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Stumbled across journalist Jacques Marcuse's 1967 "Peking Papers" memoir. Suffers from the typical issues with more snarky westerners in Maoist China, but Ch 30 overview Lei Feng campaign is quite funny, especially on Lei Feng's "reincarnations" like Wang Jie 王杰. https://archive.org/details/pekingpapers0000jacq #china #asianists #histodons
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Made an interactive practice map of China with modern provinces, provincial capitals and a few other cities important in modern Chinese history for use in my China's Revolutions module. This is for students to help practice for their map quiz (required but no grade for credit). They'll be asked to label a printed blank version of the map and draw their best attempt at the (modern) course of the Yellow and Yangzi rivers.
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Made an interactive practice map of China with modern provinces, provincial capitals and a few other cities important in modern Chinese history for use in my China's Revolutions module. This is for students to help practice for their map quiz (required but no grade for credit). They'll be asked to label a printed blank version of the map and draw their best attempt at the (modern) course of the Yellow and Yangzi rivers.
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Put together a little timeline flashcard engine with an LLM for my China's Revolutions module (focuses on 1850s to 1989) for my students to review a basic timeline and one of the supplemental timelines on a period they want to focus on. Supplemental timelines don't repeat the main events in the first timeline required for study. Would welcome feedback on events you think ought to be included or dates/details I've gotten wrong.
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Put together a little timeline flashcard engine with an LLM for my China's Revolutions module (focuses on 1850s to 1989) for my students to review a basic timeline and one of the supplemental timelines on a period they want to focus on. Supplemental timelines don't repeat the main events in the first timeline required for study. Would welcome feedback on events you think ought to be included or dates/details I've gotten wrong.
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I reflected on one of the most unusual Shanghai Municipal Police files I keep bumping into over the years:
The Case of the Electric Projecting Killing Machine (1939-1941)
https://froginawell.net/frog/2024/03/the-case-of-the-electric-projecting-killing-machine/
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I reflected on one of the most unusual Shanghai Municipal Police files I keep bumping into over the years:
The Case of the Electric Projecting Killing Machine (1939-1941)
https://froginawell.net/frog/2024/03/the-case-of-the-electric-projecting-killing-machine/
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Sept, 1940, international settlement of Shanghai, as Japanese forces occupy most of rest of the city: the Japanese Modern Science Library shows a film outdoors to an audience of allegedly 800 or mostly Chinese people. Next door Hamilton House complains about the noise, eggs are thrown, a cleaner is hit with a flying medicine bottle.
These bizarre scenes and so much more in this folder of the Shanghai Municipal Police records:
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Sept, 1940, international settlement of Shanghai, as Japanese forces occupy most of rest of the city: the Japanese Modern Science Library shows a film outdoors to an audience of allegedly 800 or mostly Chinese people. Next door Hamilton House complains about the noise, eggs are thrown, a cleaner is hit with a flying medicine bottle.
These bizarre scenes and so much more in this folder of the Shanghai Municipal Police records:
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Great to see this book out as open access:
Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map
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Great to see this book out as open access:
Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map
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Some examples of police files related to censorship in Shanghai Municipal Police records (of the International Settlement) from spring 1941 (lonely island period):
https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2732/page/n1/mode/2up
Seizure of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde's "Ideal Marraige". Read on for more records in this file on handling of other words, including Ulysses by Joyce.
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Some examples of police files related to censorship in Shanghai Municipal Police records (of the International Settlement) from spring 1941 (lonely island period):
https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2732/page/n1/mode/2up
Seizure of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde's "Ideal Marraige". Read on for more records in this file on handling of other words, including Ulysses by Joyce.
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Also going here is a bibliography on Shanghai history for the period the records focus on:
https://prosopa.org/smpa/bibliography
which pairs well with the open access primary source books here:
https://froginawell.net/frog/primary-sources-history-of-modern-shanghai/#books
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Also going here is a bibliography on Shanghai history for the period the records focus on:
https://prosopa.org/smpa/bibliography
which pairs well with the open access primary source books here:
https://froginawell.net/frog/primary-sources-history-of-modern-shanghai/#books
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I'm been working on a new wiki for the amazing collection of documents my students make great use of:
Records Of The Shanghai Municipal Police 1894-1949
I've been converting the national archive index of the documents to searchable tables, with links to copies of the files on the Internet Archive. In turn that will be the starting point for more pages dedicated to individual files of interest.
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I'm been working on a new wiki for the amazing collection of documents my students make great use of:
Records Of The Shanghai Municipal Police 1894-1949
I've been converting the national archive index of the documents to searchable tables, with links to copies of the files on the Internet Archive. In turn that will be the starting point for more pages dedicated to individual files of interest.
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Linked up "U Files" (Reports made 1940-1945 during the Japanese Occupation) from Shanghai Municipal Police Archive files available on Internet Archive on a wiki I'm developing for the archive: https://prosopa.org/smpa/u_files
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Linked up "U Files" (Reports made 1940-1945 during the Japanese Occupation) from Shanghai Municipal Police Archive files available on Internet Archive on a wiki I'm developing for the archive: https://prosopa.org/smpa/u_files
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Made lots of updates to this growing guide to open access primary sources on modern Shanghai for students (with an emphasis on things in English for them, but definitely not limited to that). Now hooked up the dynamic OA book list at the bottom, and lots of films:
Primary Sources: History of Modern Shanghai
https://froginawell.net/frog/primary-sources-history-of-modern-shanghaiWhat am I missing? Would really appreciate some suggestions for things to add. I'm definitely no Shanghai expert.
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Made lots of updates to this growing guide to open access primary sources on modern Shanghai for students (with an emphasis on things in English for them, but definitely not limited to that). Now hooked up the dynamic OA book list at the bottom, and lots of films:
Primary Sources: History of Modern Shanghai
https://froginawell.net/frog/primary-sources-history-of-modern-shanghaiWhat am I missing? Would really appreciate some suggestions for things to add. I'm definitely no Shanghai expert.
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1940 Shanghai hotel regulations, had they been regularly followed, don’t allow much fun! 😜 From the International Settlement’s Private Hotel License requirements. Shanghai Municipal Council Gazette, January, 26, 1940. #histodons #asianists #shanghai
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1940 Shanghai hotel regulations, had they been regularly followed, don’t allow much fun! 😜 From the International Settlement’s Private Hotel License requirements. Shanghai Municipal Council Gazette, January, 26, 1940. #histodons #asianists #shanghai
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Hello #asianists I am slapping together an open access primary source resource page on modern Shanghai, mostly for students who can only work with English sources. I really love Virtual Shanghai materials but my students feel a bit lost there so thought I would deep link some of the materials there plus lots of other resources.
Just getting started, but would love your suggestions of great (mostly English language, but anything) sources I should add here:
https://froginawell.net/frog/primary-sources-history-of-modern-shanghai/
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Hello #asianists I am slapping together an open access primary source resource page on modern Shanghai, mostly for students who can only work with English sources. I really love Virtual Shanghai materials but my students feel a bit lost there so thought I would deep link some of the materials there plus lots of other resources.
Just getting started, but would love your suggestions of great (mostly English language, but anything) sources I should add here:
https://froginawell.net/frog/primary-sources-history-of-modern-shanghai/
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Said this before, but I really love reading through the blog posts of my students for a year long undergraduate honours module From City to Home: Spatial Histories of East and Southeast Asia. Lots of fascinating posts of late: https://www.spatialhistory.net/cities/posts/
You can see some of their reading over the course of this year listed here: http://www.huginn.net/cities/
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Said this before, but I really love reading through the blog posts of my students for a year long undergraduate honours module From City to Home: Spatial Histories of East and Southeast Asia. Lots of fascinating posts of late: https://www.spatialhistory.net/cities/posts/
You can see some of their reading over the course of this year listed here: http://www.huginn.net/cities/
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City or country guy? In Ōsaka with Chisato, and at the temple Ishiyamadera (石山寺) in Shiga Prefecture, over the mountains from Kyōto. The idea of town and country refers to the surfing culture I was involved with in Hawaii, where town refers to Honolulu, Waikiki Beach, and the South Shore of Oahu, where waves are pretty good in the summer, whereas country refers to the North Shore of huge, wild waves that are mostly in the winter. So am I a town or country guy? Did I say wild? 😉
Ishiyamadera is a Shingon Buddhist temple associated with Lady Murasaki writing the Tale of Genji (源氏物語), and other rich lore, with a national treasure pagoda and main hall. The temple name Stone Mountain refers to the huge volcanic boulders there from an ancient eruption.
#Japan #Hawaii #travel #nature #Asianists #Japanese #Religion #Buddhism
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City or country guy? In Ōsaka with Chisato, and at the temple Ishiyamadera (石山寺) in Shiga Prefecture, over the mountains from Kyōto. The idea of town and country refers to the surfing culture I was involved with in Hawaii, where town refers to Honolulu, Waikiki Beach, and the South Shore of Oahu, where waves are pretty good in the summer, whereas country refers to the North Shore of huge, wild waves that are mostly in the winter. So am I a town or country guy? Did I say wild? 😉
Ishiyamadera is a Shingon Buddhist temple associated with Lady Murasaki writing the Tale of Genji (源氏物語), and other rich lore, with a national treasure pagoda and main hall. The temple name Stone Mountain refers to the huge volcanic boulders there from an ancient eruption.
#Japan #Hawaii #travel #nature #Asianists #Japanese #Religion #Buddhism
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Deeper and deeper into #Japanese #culture and people, I went into the #Kyoto Imperial Palace for a special performance of #Gagaku (雅楽), imperial court #music and #dances of #Asian mainland origin that have been performed there since the Heian Period over a thousand years ago. An acquaintance who is a Shintō priestess (see photo) from Nara played two types of traditional flutes that sustain an eerie or higher-worldly atmosphere. The relatively slow and deliberate movements of the mostly male dancers in many-layered gorgeous contumes stand in contrast with the frenetic tempo of modern #entertainment. We experience #time as the pace of transformation, and that brief time transfixed with the Gagaku performance was but an interlude from an ancient era in a workday preparing for university classes and a keynote address. Photos will have to suffice to evoke the special atmosphere.
Publications on Japan: https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology
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Deeper and deeper into #Japanese #culture and people, I went into the #Kyoto Imperial Palace for a special performance of #Gagaku (雅楽), imperial court #music and #dances of #Asian mainland origin that have been performed there since the Heian Period over a thousand years ago. An acquaintance who is a Shintō priestess (see photo) from Nara played two types of traditional flutes that sustain an eerie or higher-worldly atmosphere. The relatively slow and deliberate movements of the mostly male dancers in many-layered gorgeous contumes stand in contrast with the frenetic tempo of modern #entertainment. We experience #time as the pace of transformation, and that brief time transfixed with the Gagaku performance was but an interlude from an ancient era in a workday preparing for university classes and a keynote address. Photos will have to suffice to evoke the special atmosphere.
Publications on Japan: https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology
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Prof. Yang was overheard in the faculty lounge complaining that the new history job they just announced is once again going to have a 19-21st century focus.
吾寡見人之好假者也。邇文之視。邇言之聽。假則偭焉。
"Rarely have I seen people prefer what is remote. Recent writings they look at. Recent sayings they hearken to. But they turn their backs on those from distant eras.”
7.1 法言 Fayan by 揚雄 Yang Xiong (53BCE - 18CE) trans. by Michael Nylan.
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Prof. Yang was overheard in the faculty lounge complaining that the new history job they just announced is once again going to have a 19-21st century focus.
吾寡見人之好假者也。邇文之視。邇言之聽。假則偭焉。
"Rarely have I seen people prefer what is remote. Recent writings they look at. Recent sayings they hearken to. But they turn their backs on those from distant eras.”
7.1 法言 Fayan by 揚雄 Yang Xiong (53BCE - 18CE) trans. by Michael Nylan.
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Nice collection of scanned online materials from the collection of former Doshisha professor Otis Cary's works related to Japan: https://library.doshisha.ac.jp/en/guide/specially/cary/list.html
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Nice collection of scanned online materials from the collection of former Doshisha professor Otis Cary's works related to Japan: https://library.doshisha.ac.jp/en/guide/specially/cary/list.html
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Japan scholars, I'm thinking of starting early work on a Frog in a Well Open Access Primary Sources resource page (https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/) on post-1945 Japanese history. I have a small collection of links to get things started, but would love to get lots more ideas. What are your favorite *online* *open access* *primary sources* related to post-1945 Japanese history (including databases, collections, etc.).
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Japan scholars, I'm thinking of starting early work on a Frog in a Well Open Access Primary Sources resource page (https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/) on post-1945 Japanese history. I have a small collection of links to get things started, but would love to get lots more ideas. What are your favorite *online* *open access* *primary sources* related to post-1945 Japanese history (including databases, collections, etc.).
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One of my students pointed out this interesting blog post over the US Library of Congress with some nice map and pamphlet images:
Maps of Seoul, South Korea Under Japanese Occupation
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2018/05/maps-of-seoul-south-korea-under-japanese-occupation/
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One of my students pointed out this interesting blog post over the US Library of Congress with some nice map and pamphlet images:
Maps of Seoul, South Korea Under Japanese Occupation
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2018/05/maps-of-seoul-south-korea-under-japanese-occupation/
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New post alert! A student who took my seminar last semester contributed this very interesting intro and translation of a source about anti-Japanese fighters from Korea and Taiwan operating in China. It is a fun read, too!
"We Are Two Sisters: Korean and Taiwan Anti-Japanese Volunteers in China" (1940) -
New post alert! A student who took my seminar last semester contributed this very interesting intro and translation of a source about anti-Japanese fighters from Korea and Taiwan operating in China. It is a fun read, too!
"We Are Two Sisters: Korean and Taiwan Anti-Japanese Volunteers in China" (1940) -
Another @internetarchive fun find: "Talks at Harvard" on Japan, or in its Japanese title 特集： ハーバードのみたニッポン 知日派７教授の熱い生の声 <- the seven "知日派" include Ezra F. Vogel talking about his (in)famous "Japan as Number One" and Edwin O. Reischauer. https://archive.org/details/talksatharvard/mode/2up #japan #asianists
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I found another Malay language textbook for Chinese speakers in a used bookstore in Singapore from 1956. Looks like it may have been published in Penang, Federation of Malaya. I have scanned and posted to Internet Archive:
馬來語會話 1956
https://archive.org/details/malaiyu-huihua#penang #malaysia #primarysources #histodons #asianists #internetarchive
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I found another Malay language textbook for Chinese speakers in a used bookstore in Singapore from 1956. Looks like it may have been published in Penang, Federation of Malaya. I have scanned and posted to Internet Archive:
馬來語會話 1956
https://archive.org/details/malaiyu-huihua#penang #malaysia #primarysources #histodons #asianists #internetarchive
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In 1960 Radio Singapore broadcast a series of Malay language lessons. I found two volumes of the textbooks that accompanied the broadcast in an used bookstore. I have scanned and put them on the Internet Archive.
Belajar Bahasa Melayu dengan Radio Singapura (1960)
https://archive.org/details/belajar-bahasa-melayu-dengan-radio-singapuraBook 3
https://archive.org/details/belajar-bahasa-melayu-dengan-radio-singapura-book-three/mode/2up#singapore #malaysia #histodons #asianists #TootSEA #primarysources #internetarchive
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In 1960 Radio Singapore broadcast a series of Malay language lessons. I found two volumes of the textbooks that accompanied the broadcast in an used bookstore. I have scanned and put them on the Internet Archive.
Belajar Bahasa Melayu dengan Radio Singapura (1960)
https://archive.org/details/belajar-bahasa-melayu-dengan-radio-singapuraBook 3
https://archive.org/details/belajar-bahasa-melayu-dengan-radio-singapura-book-three/mode/2up#singapore #malaysia #histodons #asianists #TootSEA #primarysources #internetarchive
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If anyone wants to work on their cursive Chinese writing, you might consult this old 1955 book published in Hong Kong that I found in less than great condition in a flea market here in Singapore. Scanned and posted to internet archive:
鋼筆快寫字彙
https://archive.org/details/gangbi-kuaixie-zihui/mode/1up#chinese #china #primarysources #language #asianists #internetarchive