Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days like Happy World and Capitol Cinema. Find out how ordinary folk carried on with their daily lives through the difficult days of the Japanese Occupation.
Told in loving detail by the late Chan Kwee Sung, these first-hand accounts of the way we lived carry interesting, little-known nuggets of old Singapore that you’ll never find in a history textbook.
Size: 127 x 186 mm
Extent: 210 pages
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 320 g
ISBN: 978-981-3065-94
Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days like Happy World and Capitol Cinema. Find out how ordinary folk carried on with their daily lives through the difficult days of the Japanese Occupation.
Told in loving detail by the late Chan Kwee Sung, these first-hand accounts of the way we lived carry interesting, little-known nuggets of old Singapore that you’ll never find in a history textbook.
Size: 127 x 186 mm
Extent: 210 pages
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 320 g
ISBN: 978-981-3065-94
Great book which recounts the culture in Singapore pre and post WWII… As a young Singaporean reader who is easily intrigued by the history, this book has enlightened me on the transformations Singapore has gone through. Many facts are not mentioned in the classic textbooks in school and the author supplemented his experiences while painting a picture of how Singapore looked like in the 1940s. – Goodreads
