..HELEN
ONG'S GREAT DINING
..IN
PENANG
..THE
CHINESE IN PENANG:
..A
PICTORIAL HISTORY
..DAYS
GONE BYE:
..LIVING
IN PENANG
..ROAD
TO DAWN: FILMING
..IN
PENANG
..TULILA:
MUZIK BUJUKAN
..MANDAILING
..PENANG,
THROUGH GUILDED
..DOORS
..PENANG
TRAMS,
..TROLLEYBUSES & RAILWAYS
..OUR MALAYSIA
..KINTA VALLEY
..PENANG POSTCARDS
..COLLECTION
..STREETS OF GEORGE
TOWN,
..PENANG
..RAJA BILAH AND
..THE MANDAILINGS
..IN PERAK
..WATER WATCH
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No. 92 The
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New
Book! Days Gone By: Growing Up in Penang
Christine Wu Ramsay grew up in the British Straits Settlement of Penang, part of present-day Malaysia. Her account begins with the arrival of her great-grandfather, Leong Fee – a poor Hakka migrant from China who rose to become the owner of the famous ‘Tambun Mines’ in Perak and a Vice-Consul of China in Penang. Brought up by her grandparents and cared for by black-and-white amahs, Christine enjoyed an idyllic childhood – affected but not marred by the Japanese Occupation and declining family fortunes – up till her departure for Australia in 1957. Using over a hundred photographs from her family album, she portrays a way of life and philosophy where the practice of polygamy and the ownership of bondmaids were accepted facets of life.
She established Raya Gallery, the first gallery in Melbourne to specialise in contemporary South East Asian art, in the 1970s. From the 1990s to the present, she has been an exhibiting photographer. Official launch in Penang at g Hotel on 4 November 2007
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About
the Author: Christine Wu Ramsay graduated from and undertook
research in organic chemistry at Adelaide and Melbourne Universities,
the Chester Beatty Research Institute in London and Brandies University
in Massachusetts in the 1960s. 