Hong Lysa
Biographic Data
| ID | 542997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hong Lysa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hong |
| FAMILY NAME | Lysa |
| SIGNATURE | LYSA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Singapore communist subaltern writes back: He Jin’s life stories as historical testimony
He Jin, a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) who was born in Singapore, produced two volumes of short stories which documented the subaltern lives he lived through. They were written thirty years apart but were published in the same year. He penned the earlier stories as a Chinese middle school student in 1950s Singapore and was a CPM soldier in the Thai-Malaysian jungle when he wrote the ones in the 1980s. He Jin also authore…
Revisiting Malaya: Malayan dream or Singapore nightmare
What “Malaya” is or what it means to Singaporeans today has a history. Revisiting the historical and contemporary scenes where “Malaya” is a subject allows for the fleshing out of the politics underlying the conflict between those who desire and those who despise it. Whether Singapore's history of the 1950s and early 1960s is the striving for a dream or the forestalling of a nightmare situation is fiercely debated today, after a few decades of qu…
Portable Histories in Mobile City Singapore: The (Lack)Lustre of Admiral Zheng He
South East Asia Research
The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts
1-320
Invisible semicolony: The postcolonial condition and royal national history in Thailand
The emergence of anticolonial and ‘independent’ nation-states following colonialism is frequently accompanied by a desire to forget the colonial past. In the case of semicolonial Siam, the ‘forgetting’ commences at the very point of encounter with the colonial itself. While residents of turn of the twentieth century Bangkok were aware of how extraterritoriality compromised the country's sovereignty, this has been written over by the history of en…
Chinese Diasporic Culture and National Identity: The Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore
The Tiger Balm Gardens or Haw Par Villa, built in the 1930s by overseas Chinese pharmaceuticals tycoon Aw Boon Haw, has been and remains a symbol of the positioning of Singapore's Chineseness. In the colonial era, it marked the success not only of one man but also of the Chinese migrant community. In the later period of nation-building, it was initially considered as a challenge to multiracialism and nationhood. However, as state policy shifted t…
History and the Imaginaries of ‘Big Singapore’: Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
The establishment of the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall marks the PAP government's charting of a revolutionary, modernising genealogy of seismic proportions for the fashioning of a ‘Big Singapore’ as the political, economic and cultural focus of the Chinese diaspora. Such effort in reorienting history is problematic and the ethnicisation of national identity is contested, not least by Singapore's Chinese-language intellectuals
Stranger within the Gates: Knowing Semi-Colonial Siam as Extraterritorials
Siam and the Semi-colonial IssueThe issue of Siam as a semi-feudal, semi-colonial social formation, mooted by Thai Marxists in the 1950s, and again in the 1970s, has by the 1990s by and large been set aside by critically-minded academics for its inability to provide a lineage for the strain of capitalist mode of production that has emerged by the second half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, the 'semi-colonial' as an analytical framework re…
Extraterritoriality in Bangkok in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn, 1868–1910: The Cacophonies of Semi-Colonial Cosmopolitanism
The uniqueness of Siam in being the only independent Southeast Asian country in the age of nineteenth-century colonialism is a mantra that persists largely to this day. It held that it was the calibre of the Siamese monarchs in particular King Chulalongkorn (1868–1910), the fifth reign of the present regnant dynasty, which saved the country from succumbing to the powerful and predatory west. By continuing his father King Mongkut's (1851–1868) for…
The Lee Kuan Yew Story as Singapore's History
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Twenty Years of Sinlapa watthanatham: Cultural Politics in Thailand in the 1980s and 1990s
Founded in 1979, the Thai popular monthly magazine Sinlapa watthanatham aimed to make history, art and culture into areas of contestation against long-established official interpretations, and thus encourage a broad-based readership to reassess their assumptions about Thai-ness. However, the question of magazine sales, the context of the economic boom, and the crisis that erupted in 1997 led the magazine to succumb to consumerism, as well as a co…
Palace Women at the Margins of Social Change: An Aspect of the Politics of Social History in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn
The reign of King Chulalongkorn, conventionally regarded as the turning point in Thailand's political development, is also understood as offering a paradigm for social history. In particular it set down standards for appreciating courtly female behaviour which entailed political submission and passivity — attitudes championed by conservative elements during the 1970s. This article argues that palace women in fact did have their own understanding …
Of Consorts and Harlots in Thai Popular History
This essay is an exploration of one aspect of the politics of gender representation in Thailand, namely, how the portrayals of Siamese women in Thai popular histories form part of the present-day shaping of gender relations. I argue that moving in tandem with developments in academic historiography, popular history since the 1980s has become a battleground for cultural hegemony.Hitherto the preserve of antiquarians, popular history has caught the…
In Memoriam: Dr Benjamin A. Batson
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Thailand in the Nineteenth Century. Evolution of the Economy and Society
Thailand in 1984: Towards a Political Modus Vivendi
Until the last two months of 1984, the year's events seemed to indicate an extremely fluid political situation. The prevailing current seemed to flow in favour of the country's highest ranking military leader, while eroding the support base of the ailing Prime Minister who, in turn, seemed to be overwhelmed by the military-parliamentary tussle which was symptomized by both groups each declaring their support for him. Inevitably, the tensions betw…
The Tax Farming System in the Early Bangkok Period
When King Chulalongkorn surveyed his realm on his second coronation in 1873 to mark the termination of the five-year regency at his coming of age, he saw much that was in need of reform. The king's assessment was that the monarch was but a figurehead; the existing framework of government was actually run by the leading nobility, foremost of whom were the regent and his family who wielded power based on their long dominance over the key administra…
Marxism in Thai Historical Studies
Analyses of Thai political economy since World War II have sought to define the stages of Thai social evolution from earliest times to the present and to determine whether or not the Bowring Treaty of 1855 and the 1932 coup mark changes in the social formation and/or the mode of production. Over the past decade, as a consequence of political change in the mid-1970s, a new generation of historians has rejuvenated Marxist methodology, using it to p…
Thailand in 1981: Reforming the Policy from Within
Stranger within the Gates: Knowing Semi-Colonial Siam as Extraterritorials
Siam and the Semi-colonial IssueThe issue of Siam as a semi-feudal, semi-colonial social formation, mooted by Thai Marxists in the 1950s, and again in the 1970s, has by the 1990s by and large been set aside by critically-minded academics for its inability to provide a lineage for the strain of capitalist mode of production that has emerged by the second half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, the 'semi-colonial' as an analytical framework re…
Marxism in Thai Historical Studies
Analyses of Thai political economy since World War II have sought to define the stages of Thai social evolution from earliest times to the present and to determine whether or not the Bowring Treaty of 1855 and the 1932 coup mark changes in the social formation and/or the mode of production. Over the past decade, as a consequence of political change in the mid-1970s, a new generation of historians has rejuvenated Marxist methodology, using it to p…
Invisible semicolony: The postcolonial condition and royal national history in Thailand
The emergence of anticolonial and ‘independent’ nation-states following colonialism is frequently accompanied by a desire to forget the colonial past. In the case of semicolonial Siam, the ‘forgetting’ commences at the very point of encounter with the colonial itself. While residents of turn of the twentieth century Bangkok were aware of how extraterritoriality compromised the country's sovereignty, this has been written over by the history of en…
Of Consorts and Harlots in Thai Popular History
This essay is an exploration of one aspect of the politics of gender representation in Thailand, namely, how the portrayals of Siamese women in Thai popular histories form part of the present-day shaping of gender relations. I argue that moving in tandem with developments in academic historiography, popular history since the 1980s has become a battleground for cultural hegemony.Hitherto the preserve of antiquarians, popular history has caught the…
Chinese Diasporic Culture and National Identity: The Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore
The Tiger Balm Gardens or Haw Par Villa, built in the 1930s by overseas Chinese pharmaceuticals tycoon Aw Boon Haw, has been and remains a symbol of the positioning of Singapore's Chineseness. In the colonial era, it marked the success not only of one man but also of the Chinese migrant community. In the later period of nation-building, it was initially considered as a challenge to multiracialism and nationhood. However, as state policy shifted t…
Extraterritoriality in Bangkok in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn, 1868–1910: The Cacophonies of Semi-Colonial Cosmopolitanism
The uniqueness of Siam in being the only independent Southeast Asian country in the age of nineteenth-century colonialism is a mantra that persists largely to this day. It held that it was the calibre of the Siamese monarchs in particular King Chulalongkorn (1868–1910), the fifth reign of the present regnant dynasty, which saved the country from succumbing to the powerful and predatory west. By continuing his father King Mongkut's (1851–1868) for…
Palace Women at the Margins of Social Change: An Aspect of the Politics of Social History in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn
The reign of King Chulalongkorn, conventionally regarded as the turning point in Thailand's political development, is also understood as offering a paradigm for social history. In particular it set down standards for appreciating courtly female behaviour which entailed political submission and passivity — attitudes championed by conservative elements during the 1970s. This article argues that palace women in fact did have their own understanding …
The Lee Kuan Yew Story as Singapore's History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Twenty Years of Sinlapa watthanatham: Cultural Politics in Thailand in the 1980s and 1990s
Founded in 1979, the Thai popular monthly magazine Sinlapa watthanatham aimed to make history, art and culture into areas of contestation against long-established official interpretations, and thus encourage a broad-based readership to reassess their assumptions about Thai-ness. However, the question of magazine sales, the context of the economic boom, and the crisis that erupted in 1997 led the magazine to succumb to consumerism, as well as a co…
A Singapore communist subaltern writes back: He Jin’s life stories as historical testimony
He Jin, a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) who was born in Singapore, produced two volumes of short stories which documented the subaltern lives he lived through. They were written thirty years apart but were published in the same year. He penned the earlier stories as a Chinese middle school student in 1950s Singapore and was a CPM soldier in the Thai-Malaysian jungle when he wrote the ones in the 1980s. He Jin also authore…
Thailand in 1981: Reforming the Policy from Within
The Tax Farming System in the Early Bangkok Period
When King Chulalongkorn surveyed his realm on his second coronation in 1873 to mark the termination of the five-year regency at his coming of age, he saw much that was in need of reform. The king's assessment was that the monarch was but a figurehead; the existing framework of government was actually run by the leading nobility, foremost of whom were the regent and his family who wielded power based on their long dominance over the key administra…
Marxism in Thai Historical Studies
Analyses of Thai political economy since World War II have sought to define the stages of Thai social evolution from earliest times to the present and to determine whether or not the Bowring Treaty of 1855 and the 1932 coup mark changes in the social formation and/or the mode of production. Over the past decade, as a consequence of political change in the mid-1970s, a new generation of historians has rejuvenated Marxist methodology, using it to p…
Thailand in 1984: Towards a Political Modus Vivendi
Until the last two months of 1984, the year's events seemed to indicate an extremely fluid political situation. The prevailing current seemed to flow in favour of the country's highest ranking military leader, while eroding the support base of the ailing Prime Minister who, in turn, seemed to be overwhelmed by the military-parliamentary tussle which was symptomized by both groups each declaring their support for him. Inevitably, the tensions betw…
Thailand in the Nineteenth Century. Evolution of the Economy and Society
In Memoriam: Dr Benjamin A. Batson
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Of Consorts and Harlots in Thai Popular History
This essay is an exploration of one aspect of the politics of gender representation in Thailand, namely, how the portrayals of Siamese women in Thai popular histories form part of the present-day shaping of gender relations. I argue that moving in tandem with developments in academic historiography, popular history since the 1980s has become a battleground for cultural hegemony.Hitherto the preserve of antiquarians, popular history has caught the…
Palace Women at the Margins of Social Change: An Aspect of the Politics of Social History in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn
The reign of King Chulalongkorn, conventionally regarded as the turning point in Thailand's political development, is also understood as offering a paradigm for social history. In particular it set down standards for appreciating courtly female behaviour which entailed political submission and passivity — attitudes championed by conservative elements during the 1970s. This article argues that palace women in fact did have their own understanding …
Twenty Years of Sinlapa watthanatham: Cultural Politics in Thailand in the 1980s and 1990s
Founded in 1979, the Thai popular monthly magazine Sinlapa watthanatham aimed to make history, art and culture into areas of contestation against long-established official interpretations, and thus encourage a broad-based readership to reassess their assumptions about Thai-ness. However, the question of magazine sales, the context of the economic boom, and the crisis that erupted in 1997 led the magazine to succumb to consumerism, as well as a co…
The Lee Kuan Yew Story as Singapore's History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Extraterritoriality in Bangkok in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn, 1868–1910: The Cacophonies of Semi-Colonial Cosmopolitanism
The uniqueness of Siam in being the only independent Southeast Asian country in the age of nineteenth-century colonialism is a mantra that persists largely to this day. It held that it was the calibre of the Siamese monarchs in particular King Chulalongkorn (1868–1910), the fifth reign of the present regnant dynasty, which saved the country from succumbing to the powerful and predatory west. By continuing his father King Mongkut's (1851–1868) for…
History and the Imaginaries of ‘Big Singapore’: Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
The establishment of the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall marks the PAP government's charting of a revolutionary, modernising genealogy of seismic proportions for the fashioning of a ‘Big Singapore’ as the political, economic and cultural focus of the Chinese diaspora. Such effort in reorienting history is problematic and the ethnicisation of national identity is contested, not least by Singapore's Chinese-language intellectuals
Stranger within the Gates: Knowing Semi-Colonial Siam as Extraterritorials
Siam and the Semi-colonial IssueThe issue of Siam as a semi-feudal, semi-colonial social formation, mooted by Thai Marxists in the 1950s, and again in the 1970s, has by the 1990s by and large been set aside by critically-minded academics for its inability to provide a lineage for the strain of capitalist mode of production that has emerged by the second half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, the 'semi-colonial' as an analytical framework re…
Chinese Diasporic Culture and National Identity: The Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore
The Tiger Balm Gardens or Haw Par Villa, built in the 1930s by overseas Chinese pharmaceuticals tycoon Aw Boon Haw, has been and remains a symbol of the positioning of Singapore's Chineseness. In the colonial era, it marked the success not only of one man but also of the Chinese migrant community. In the later period of nation-building, it was initially considered as a challenge to multiracialism and nationhood. However, as state policy shifted t…
The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts
1-320
Invisible semicolony: The postcolonial condition and royal national history in Thailand
The emergence of anticolonial and ‘independent’ nation-states following colonialism is frequently accompanied by a desire to forget the colonial past. In the case of semicolonial Siam, the ‘forgetting’ commences at the very point of encounter with the colonial itself. While residents of turn of the twentieth century Bangkok were aware of how extraterritoriality compromised the country's sovereignty, this has been written over by the history of en…
Portable Histories in Mobile City Singapore: The (Lack)Lustre of Admiral Zheng He
South East Asia Research
Revisiting Malaya: Malayan dream or Singapore nightmare
What “Malaya” is or what it means to Singaporeans today has a history. Revisiting the historical and contemporary scenes where “Malaya” is a subject allows for the fleshing out of the politics underlying the conflict between those who desire and those who despise it. Whether Singapore's history of the 1950s and early 1960s is the striving for a dream or the forestalling of a nightmare situation is fiercely debated today, after a few decades of qu…
A Singapore communist subaltern writes back: He Jin’s life stories as historical testimony
He Jin, a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) who was born in Singapore, produced two volumes of short stories which documented the subaltern lives he lived through. They were written thirty years apart but were published in the same year. He penned the earlier stories as a Chinese middle school student in 1950s Singapore and was a CPM soldier in the Thai-Malaysian jungle when he wrote the ones in the 1980s. He Jin also authore…
Political science (17 works) · History (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (11 works) · Asian Studies and History (8 works) · Economic history (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works)