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10/07/2025

Below is a great blog post by Yang Liping, our Senior Manager, Academic Publishing, who is responsible for many of our Asia-related publications such as China and the Modern World and State Papers Online Colonial.

History of Malaysia Singapore and Hong Kong
https://review.gale.com/2025/07/08/malaysia-history-in-british-documents/

In this post, Liping focuses on his most recent release, State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part IV: Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He cites interesting examples related to various topics such as World War II, British monitoring of the Sultans, Dato Onn and the formation of UMNO, Communism and the Chinese community, Indonesian influence, the defence and future of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government gazettes and Sessional Papers, and the British Council in Hong Kong.

03/07/2025

Explore the Hidden Colonial History of Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong

The newly released Part IV: Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong of State Papers Online Colonial: Asia continues the acclaimed series by including confidential original correspondence relating to Malaysia and Singapore, as well as a collection of post-1940 maps and plans of British Malaya. Also included are several Hong Kong-related collections, such as selected files from the Colonial Office and the Cabinet Office, correspondence and papers from the Prime Minister’s Office, and registered files from the Ministry of Defence and the British Council.

On Thursday 17 July 2025, from 3pm (Singapore time) Senior Product Manager Masaki Morisawa will conduct a free webinar on this latest module, sharing interesting examples from the newly available content, as well as conducting a short live demo.

Even if you are not sure if you can make the date, register now to receive the recording and slides afterwards!

Registration link
https://tinyurl.com/3sb6rcts

18/03/2025

Webinar recording of

British Library Newspapers - Southeast Asian Newspapers from 1806 - 1977

This webinar introduces "British Library Newspapers, Part VII: Southeast Asian Newspapers", a new archive comprising more than 36 English-language newspapers from the British Library’s prestigious Asia, Pacific, and Africa collections. (36 mins)

07/02/2025

Interested with how an American domestic conflict affected foreign countries in the form of propaganda wars in London, effects on industries such as cotton in Lancashire and shipbuilding in Liverpool, and even threatened Dutch and Danish colonial possessions in the Caribbean?

Read here:

The American Civil War: The International Perspective – The First Digital Archive of Its Kind

https://review.gale.com/2025/02/04/the-american-civil-war-the-international-perspective/

15/01/2025

Great blog post by Yang Liping, Gale's Senior Manager, Academic Publishing, who is responsible for many of Gale's Asia-related publications such as China and the Modern World and State Papers Online Colonial.

Treaty Ports and Modern China
https://review.gale.com/2025/01/14/treaty-ports-and-modern-china/

In this post, Liping explains his most recent release, China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1759-1972. He first explains the historical context of the archive, then cites interesting examples including land transaction records, correspondence on the aftermath of the Tianjin Massacre of 1870, the difficulty of maintaining a foreign cemetery in the post WWII world, birth registers of Sir Thomas Wade’s children, a death certificate of a foreign victim of a cholera epidemic, an in*******al marriage registration, and a register of British subjects.

10/10/2024

Recorded video of the Webinar

Explore the Colonial History of West Malaysia and Singapore through Rare Documents

Click here:
https://cengage.zoom.us/rec/share/mk98UIz8oHuEVenlOIG9TBb2yZGiWUBvGmC8vN4-WNgyB3Q7cZyh3pkls0ihDVbN.gdTwtW9P2IUsa8I2

08/10/2024

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25/09/2024

WEBINAR: Explore the Colonial History of West Malaysia and Singapore through Rare Documents

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
3pm - 3:45pm (Singapore Time)

https://tinyurl.com/56dzbktx

While the colonial history of the Malayan peninsula can be traced back to the 16th century, it was the arrival of the British in the 19th century that started the process whereby the entire peninsula, including the island of Singapore, was eventually placed under Western influence. The development of tin and rubber, the influx of workers from abroad, and the transformation of traditional Malay rule are only a few examples of the changes brought on by the British colonial powers, the effects of which are still being felt in the region today.

In this webinar, Senior Product Manager Masaki Morisawa will introduce the newly released State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part III: Malay States, Malaya, and Straits Settlements, which contains thousands of British Colonial Office documents on present-day West Malaysia and Singapore. Within these documents, researchers can trace the history, politics, and culture of British Malaya, including power struggles, development of industries, the Japanese invasion, ethnic tensions and the Malayan Emergency, and the path toward independence.

https://www.gale.com/intl/c/state-papers-online-colonial-asia-part-iii?channel=eloqua&elq_mid=65013&elq_nm=SEP2024_GALE_ASIA_WEBINAR_SPOC3_MM&elq_cid=11917242&utm_medium=email&utm_source=&utm_campaign=&utm_content=

20/09/2024

Exciting News! Four Gale products named 2024 Best Tools for Back-to-School winners by Tech & Learning Magazine! https://rebrand.ly/l8yj9x1

Gale 2024 Back-to-School Winners
• Gale Literature Resource Center was named a best tool for back-to-school, higher education winner!

• Gale In Context: For Educators was named a best tool for back-to-school, secondary education (6-12) winner, for the fourth consecutive year!

• Gale Digital Scholar Lab was named a best tool for back-to-school, higher education winner for the third consecutive year!

• Gale In Context: Literature was named a best tool for back-to-school, secondary education (6-12) winner second consecutive year!

13/09/2024

State Papers Online Colonia Asia: Part 3 - Malay States, Malaya and Straits Settements

Coming soon ~~~~

05/09/2024

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15/08/2024

China and Australia: Trade, Migration, and Politics in the Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
https://review.gale.com/2024/08/13/china-and-australia-relations/

In this post, the author examines the history of China’s commercial and diplomatic relationship with Australia during the 19th and 20th centuries, including trade in sandalwood (檀香, 白檀), tea, and coal, as well as friction over Chinese immigrants, citing many interesting documents, statistics, and articles from the China and the Modern World and Archives Unbound series.

Exploring "China and Australia: Trade, Migration, and Politics in the Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries" using Gale primary sources archive, by Gale