Jason Heng

Decoding Sejarah Melayu: The Hidden History of Ancient Singapore (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Everyone knows Singapore as the Lion City and the story behind of a Palembang prince, Sang Nila Utama, sighting a lion on this island that was first published 200 years ago in John Leyden's translation of the Malay classic Sejarah Melayu. But few people have actually read the Sejarah Melayu to realise the fairytale-like claims of Singapore's supposed medieval founder as a descendant of Alexander the Great, and the son of an Indian king who tried to conquer China and a princess from underwater; or that the creature he purportedly saw was not described as a lion, but a chimera with a red body, black head, white breast, and was a little larger than a he-goat. And barely anyone remembers the days when respectable residents of Singapore scoffed at suggestions that Singapore's name has anything to do with the Felis Leo.

Decoding Sejarah Melayu daringly challenges the assumption that the Sejarah Melayu records Singapore's pre-modern past, which has been held since Sir Stamford Raffles arrived in 1819 and declared himself at the "ancient Capital of the Malay kings". It seeks to grasp what is the Sejarah Melayu and how its accounts of Singapore as Temasek and Singapura were written, critically re-examines key historical text such as the Malay epic Hikayat Hang Tuah, Tomé Pires' Suma Oriental and 14th century Chinese travelogue Daoyi Zhilue, and makes an expansive study into other sources in Malay, Javanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Siamese, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and the English language to discover clues to ancient Singapore's long hidden past. This is a book that will profoundly change understandings of Singapore's history and identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Heng
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201638450
• Artikelnr.: 61969747

Autorenporträt

Jason Heng is the director of Rui Intelligence, an investigative research and business intelligence firm. As a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow with the National Library Board, Singapore, he published a research titled "An Old Teochew Oral Account Sheds New Light on the 1819 Founding of Singapore". Jason holds a master's degree in journalism from Shantou University and a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Sociology from the National University of Singapore. Decoding Sejarah Melayu: A Hidden History of Ancient Singapore is his first book.