新加坡出版

'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE (3RD PRINTING)
by Melissa De Silva
published by Math Paper Press
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What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians Singaporean? What does it mean to be a Eurasian living in Singapore?

While having existed in Singapore as long as any other community, Eurasians, who comprise less than one percent of the population, still remain a fairly obscure group to many Singaporeans.

'OTHERS' IS NOT A RACE is a tapestry that weaves together the multiple genres of narrative fiction, creative nonfiction, literary food writing and family memoir, to offer insight into the micro-minority Eurasian community through the intensely personal lens of the writer's own experience living and growing up as a Eurasian in Singapore. Throughout are interwoven the themes of memory, loss, language, identity and cultural reclamation.

Similarly, it is a reflective and provocative journey of self-discovery; a journey the reader may also take to explore what it means to exist at the confluence of being Singaporean and being Eurasian, and to interrogate the liminal space between two cultures, Asian and European, occupied by this community

suspend disbelief. nothing is strange here. what is mengarut anyway?

gelisah's stories explore the element of discomfort through the vernacular of malay superstition, treading on familiar grounds whilst different lenses are applied to them.

SQ21 - Singapore Queer Families in the 21st Century (SQ21 - Families, shortened) is the long-awaited sequel to the best-selling SQ21 - Singapore Queers in the 21st Century (First edition 2006; Second edition 2017, Math Paper Press).

SQ21 – Families documents the real-life stories of Singaporean LGBTQ+ people and their families. The book, comprising real-life stories of Singaporeans with actual names and photographs, is made up of personal stories of a lesbian mother & her straight adult son, two gay brothers, a transman & his co-parent, a transwoman & her family of choice, gay couples with & without children, a straight mother & her gay son, a drag queen & her grandmother. The foreword to the book is written by Constance Singam, a writer and past president of AWARE.

Singapore operates in a dangerous world — a world where might is right, where the strong eat the weak, and where small countries are, all too often, expected to submit to a brutish order. 

This is the harsh reality that Singapore diplomats have faced over the past 60 years of the nation’s independence. Yet, they have clung resolutely to the belief that Singapore has the right to determine its own future. Amid violence and volatility, generations of foreign service officers have steadfastly advanced Singapore’s interests on the global stage — while remaining clear-sighted about the nature of the world we live in. 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has played a critical role in charting Singapore’s path to prosperity through crisis and conflict. Ironically, its work remains largely invisible to the public. Not So Little Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s Diplomacy is an attempt to peel back the curtain on six decades of foreign policy, and the men and women who have made it possible. The book spotlights seven episodes largely from the 21st century that illustrate key tenets of Singapore’s approach: 

• Russia-Ukraine War — Sovereignty
• Gaza Crisis — Humanitarian Aid
• Vaccines — Multilateralism 
• Trump-Kim Summit — Honest Broker
• Points of Agreement with Malaysia — Neighbourliness 
• ASEAN formation — Centrality of ASEAN 
• COVID-19 evacuations — Consular Assistance

Each chapter offers an accessible reading experience by blending comics from veteran artist Cheah Sinann and prose written by a team of seven writers from The Nutgraf. The content and communications agency was behind bestselling titles such as The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew’s A-Team. Not So Little Red Dot: 60 Years of Singapore’s Diplomacy is authorised by MFA to celebrate its 60th anniversary. 

　　《人間慈悲》是一本反戰的詩集，同時希望為弱者發聲並期盼人間的愛與慈悲。詩集分為四輯。

　　〈專輯1：人間慈悲〉書寫發生在加沙的人道災難，巴勒斯坦人民的苦難與不幸。

　　〈專輯2：戰爭的諸神〉書寫戰爭以各種形式和面向發生，彷彿無處不在，詩引領我們去發現真相。

　　〈專輯3：只是為了安靜〉書寫生命如何面對戰亂與死亡、如何與之抗衡。

　　〈專輯4：阿母〉書寫孩子與母親的關係，複雜的人性和故事。

作者簡介

　　語凡，新加坡文藝協會副會長，《新加坡文藝報》主編，至今出版11本詩集、1本散文詩集、1本散文集。曾經獲得新加坡文學獎（詩）、方修文學獎（詩）、金筆獎（短篇小說）、2023年台灣時報文學獎（詩、）台灣詩學2018與2025年創作獎散文詩佳作獎，台灣華文現代詩五週年詩獎正獎、第二節陳贊一博士世界華文微型小說創作獎、全球華文文學星雲獎（詩）等。

This booklet brings together the original English works from Streets & Places of Singapore Volumes 1 and 2. The two anthologies were envisioned as a way of mapping Singapore through literature—capturing how streets and places carry history, memory, and imagination. Published in Chinese, they highlight the city as seen through the lens of Chinese literary expression, while also embracing works that were first written in English and lovingly translated into Chinese.

About the Editor

Ang Lai Sheng (汪来昇, 1987–) is a Singaporean writer, translator, publisher, and columnist, and the Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief of TrendLit Publishing. His works and essays have been published across Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. He is the author of the poetry collections After Commotion, The Void (2014) and Destroy All Gods (2016), and editor of anthologies including Never Before – 50 Essential Poems (2018), Streets & Places of Singapore (Vol. 1 & 2, 2022, 2025), and Impressions of Singapore (2023). He is also the Chinese-language translator of Anything but Human (2025) and The World May Say This, But I Believe That! (2025).

Beyond his publications, Ang champions emerging voices, fosters cross-cultural literary dialogue, and conducts workshops and talks for writers and educators. He has twice served as Writer-in-Residence for the Ministry of Education’s Chinese Language Elective Programme and was honoured with the 2023 NTU School of Humanities Alumni Award for his contributions to literature and publishing.

Authors

Alvin Pang／Daryl Lim Wei Jie／Shawn Hoo／Yeow Kai Chai／Yong Shu Hoong ／Yvonne Tham


Contents

Editor’s Forword

1.     Around the Lake I Go ◎ Yong Shu Hoong

2.     Hwi Yoh Trilling ◎ Shawn Hoo

3.     Katong ◎ Alvin Pang

4.     Kelip-kelip: An Entomologist’s Field Recording at Changi Village Circa 2007 ◎ Yeow Kai Chai

5.     My Kind of Town ◎ Daryl Lim Wei Jie

6.    
Toa Payoh Lorong 8 ◎ Yvonne Tham

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ISBN: 978-981-94-4467-0
Publisher: TrendLit Publishing Private Limited
Published Date: October 2025
Suggest Classification: Creative Non-Fiction, Singapore Literature, Locative Writing
Email: contact@trendlitpublishing.com

　　華文媒體集團社長李慧玲，從1994年入行迄今三十餘載，與當下遇見的風雲人物進行訪談，凝練他們的人生智慧，見諸報章——“這一輩子，我大概只學着做一件事：就是從事新聞工作。”

　　這本書收集記者多篇人物專訪，既有她在新加坡、中國和美國遇到的人物故事與看法，間接也反映工作三十餘年的新聞人站在前線的思索歷程，涵括政治、人文、科學、藝術、商貿、飲食、體育等各領域。

　　新聞重在當下，反映一個時代的關懷與主弦律。三十年下來，省思吾土，尋索他鄉，在更長的時間尺度裏，新聞自有其歷史中的含義。

　　吾土篇：陳智龍、楊榮文、詹時中、許通美、潘受、鄞昌濤、林清如、李顯龍、周賢正、吳作棟、王瑞傑

　　他鄉篇：高錕、馬雲、張信剛、彭作義、張瑞敏、葉劉淑儀、李雲迪、姜文、劉以鬯、吳家瑋、傅瑩、李君如、戚發軔、黃春平、陳德銘、吳青、董振祥、袁行霈、陳平原、劉遠立、傅高義

　　2020年是新中建交30年週年，《聯合早報》和華文媒體集團旗下英文電子雜誌“思想中國”（ThinkChina）推出雙語圖片集《奠基人足跡：新中建交30年》。新加坡已故建國總理李光耀和中國已故領導人鄧小平是當代新中關係的奠基人，談及兩國關係，不能不提起這兩位領航者之間的交往。這本全綵雙語圖片集循着奠基人的足跡回溯兩國友誼。

　　A bilingual pictorial retracing the footsteps of the founders of Singapore and China, to commemorate 30 years of diplomatic relations of the two countries.

About the Book

Malaysia is no easy country to analyse, or even to understand. With so many narratives about the country, its peoples, and its histories, the noise generated — both online and off — can be as deafening as that of any rave party.

Since 2019, Malaysians have lived through a unique period in the country’s history. Amid the Covid pandemic and its many challenges, Malaysia experienced three prime minister changes, and countless other political dramas and plot twists.

Signals in the Noise is not just a book on politics, though. Moving with ease between different sociopolitical and socioeconomic discourses, this collection of Ooi Kee Beng’s columns and commentaries — published between 2019 and 2023 — showcases more than ever his talent as a historian and philosopher, alongside his prowess as a political scientist. This wide-ranging collection is a must-read beginner's guide to Malaysian politics. It also highlights Ooi’s love for his hometown of Penang, his concern for the environment, and how the arts define a society and its perceptions of the world.

About the Author

Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng is Executive Director of Penang Institute. He entered think tank work in 2004 and was Deputy Director of Singapore’s ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in 2011-2017, where he remains attached as Visiting Senior Fellow. His homepage can be found at wikibeng.com.

About the Book

In the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immigrant, her feelings about being in a mixed-race marriage, her opinions on mental health. But as her stories progress, it becomes clear a volatile secret lurks beneath their surface. There are events in Hui’s past that have great significance for the person she’s become, but that have gone missing from her memory. What is it, exactly, that is haunting Hui? Who is the little girl she talks to? And who is Hui herself? 

As the conversation continues, what unfolds is a breathtaking, unexpected journey through layers of story toward truth and recovered identity; a memoir that reenacts, in tautly novelistic fashion, the process of healing that author Shze-Hui Tjoa moved through to recover memories lost to complex PTSD and, eventually, reconstruct her sense of self. Stunning in its originality and intimacy, The Story Game is a piercing tribute to selfhood and sisterhood, a genre-shattering testament to the power of imagination, and a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Praise for The Story Game

"A unique memoir that constantly undermines and reworks itself as it braids together episodes from the author's life, a destabilising approach that calls into question how accurately we can remember the past while we are still processing it."
Jeremy Tiang, writer and translator

Reading The Story Game is nothing short of an immense privilege. Shze-Hui Tjoa writes with her heart on her sleeve and the sanctity of her soul risked on every page. I wish every writer could pay testament to life—and our tricky relationship to the writing of life—the way she has done so earnestly, thoughtfully and playfully here.
Daryl Qilin Yam, writer, editor and author of Be Your Own Bae

Shze-Hui Tjoa has written a book that understands that stories are built out of erasure and silence, but they are also made from a relentless belief in transformation. To tell the story, again. And maybe this time, we might finally reveal what is hidden, even from ourselves. What a beautiful, brave act this book is of reclaiming, forgiving but also of un-naming. Sometimes stories teach us to say yes. This one reminds me we can also say No.
Lawrence Ypil, author of The Experiment of the Tropics

The Story Game is a truly inventive memoir told in the form of autobiographical essays that ask what it means to be political in body and mind while aspiring to always be more than we are. Nothing is as it seems in this memoir that’s both reflexive and reflective, and Shze-Hui Tjoa’s careful excavation of disembodiment’s nature knits together the very mind-body separation her memoir interrogates in a journey of healing that will have the reader questioning the narratives we cling to in order to survive. What emerges is an act of courage, confrontation, and intimacy rendered in beautiful, lucid prose.
Jemimah Wei, author of The Original Daughter

About the Author

Shze-Hui Tjoa is a Singaporean writer who lives in Edinburgh, UK. Her debut, The Story Game, was named a best nonfiction book of 2024 by Electric Literature and Paste Magazine when it was first published in the US and Canada. Shze-Hui is an editor at Guernica and Adi Magazine. Her writing has received support from arts organisations in the US, Portugal, Singapore, and Morocco. You can read her author interviews and find out more about her creative philosophy via her website, www.tjoashzehui.com.