The Red Cheong-sam
Subtitle: And Other Old Tales of Malaya and Singapore
By: Ralph Modder.
Publisher: Horizon Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9789810503901
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The thirty-one stories selected for this volume portray the scandalous, tragic, violent, romantic and lighter sides of life at various levels of the segregated English and Asian communities in Malaya (now Malaysia ) and Singapore under British colonial rule (1819-1945). The stories originated from various sources and were passed on by word-of-mouth or recalled from memory and jotted down over a period of several years. While many were ‘lost in time,' others may have found their way into Far Eastern stories by Somerset Maugham and Joseph Conrad.
Notes: Short stories.