Men in White was, as could be expected, marketed as being different from any other product of its kind. However few in Singapore would have anything remotely comparable to the publicity machinery of SPH, nor indeed the kind of resources that was poured into the book’s production.
Hong Lysa
Historian
LIVE DISCUSSION - EXTENDED
REDDIT I AM A SESSION:
LOH KAH SENG & THUM PING TJIN
16 SEPTEMBER 2015, WEDNESDAY. 8.30PM-9.30PM
Due to the huge interest generated, our discussion is now extended to 20 Sep (Sun).
Teacher with students in classroom
Fight against oppression
Due to the huge interest generated, our discussion is now extended to 20 Sep (Sun).
Ask Singapore's "revisionist historians" ANYTHING!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3l5v4w/we_are_historians_who_run_living_with_myths_an/
We are historians who run "Living with Myths", an ongoing project and seminar series that unpacks the myths that shape our identity. Some of us have been accused of having social media proxies and deliberately trying to undermine the PAP's political legitimacy and"rewrite" Singapore's history. We have been attacked as "revisionist historians", which is misleading as rigorous historical research is by definition revisionist.
We work on fires, activism, decolonisation, identity, migration, and religion in Singapore history. Our research, which we think is very exciting and cutting edge, aims to uncover new ways of understanding our pasts, as all good histories do.
Join our live Reddit IAmA session on 16 Sep, 8.30pm. We’re hosting a live online discussion about the new histories we've been uncovering, how we verify our work, why the past is relevant to our present and future--and anything else you might want to ask!
Hosts:
• Dr Loh Kah Seng, Assistant Professor, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University (South Korea)
• Dr Thum Ping Tjin, Research Associate, Centre for Global History & Co-ordinator, Project Southeast Asia, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)