Andrew M. Stauffer, "Digital scholarly resources for the study of Victorian literature and culture," Victorian Literature and Culture, article advance, 2011, 11pps. very useful.
Anthony Webster, "The development of British commercial and political networks in the Straits Settlements 1800-1868: The rise of a colonial and regional economic identity?" Modern Asian Studies, article advance, 2010, 31pps. Scottish merchants in the SS.
Sabine MacCormack, "Pausanias and his commentator Sir James George Frazer," Classical Reception Journal, Vol. 2, Iss. 2 (2010), pp. 287-313. Sir Frazer was born in Glasgow. It reminds me of the Chinese scholar Xu Dishan, who had applied Frazer's comparative and anthropological method to his studies on Chinese religion.
Jan van der Putten, "Negotiating the Great Depression: The rise of popular culture and consumerism in early-1930s Malaya," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2010, pp. 21-45. illustrated Malay commercials includes the Singapore-based Fraser and Neave Company.
Timothy P. Barnard, "Film Melayu: Nationalism, modernity and film in a pre-World War Two Malay magazine," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2010, pp. 47-70. The magazine was written and produced by Utusan Melayu Publications, Ltd., one of the strongest advocates of Malay nationalism in the late 1930s an early 1940s, in Singapore and printed at the Shaw Printing Works.
Terence Chong, "Manufacturing authenticity: The cultural production of national identities in Singapore," Modern Asian Studies, 2010, 21pps.
Stanislas Dehaene's Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention (New York : Viking, 2009). "The uniqueness of our species," Dehaene says "may arise from a combination of two factors: a theory of mind (the ability to imagine the mind of others) and a conscious global workspace (an internal buffer where an infinite variety of ideas can be recombined). (p. 9)
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