Jeffery Seow

Twilight Legacy of the Mandarin-Capitalist: The Final Year of Capitan China China Chung Keng Quee (1901)

The final year in the long, epoch-making life of Capitan China China Chung Keng Quee was not a period of quiet retirement, but a dynamic testament to the enduring power and civic influence of British Malaya’s premier pioneer. Up until his peaceful passing on the night of 12 Decem...

"Too Late to Discuss": Colonial Gaslighting, Excavators, and the 140-Year War on Penang's Sacred Geography

This dataset provides a complete, verbatim primary source transcription of a high-stakes, late-19th-century constitutional and civic dispute in the British Straits Settlements, compiled from archival editions of the Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle (October 1887, January 1888...