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Foreword by the Prime Minister of Singapore -- Message by SFCCA Honorary President -- Message by SFCCA President -- Preface by Wang Gungwu -- Editors' note -- Prelude to the history of the Chinese in Singapore / Kwa Chong Guan -- Junk trade and gambier industry. Chinese junk trade in early Singapore / Lee Yip Lim; Gambier and early development of Singapore / Lim Guan Hock -- Chinatown: cradle of Chinese community development / Lim Guan Hock -- Singapore Chinese Community. Social structure and Bang interactions / Lim How Seng; Chinese leadership and its political transformation / C F Yong; The knots of the Chinese secret societies in early Singapore / Mak Lau-Fong; Bukit Brown chronicles: a brief cultural history of the Chinese in Singapore through the lens of a cemetery / Hui Yew-Foong -- Qing Government and Singapore Chinese community. Rivalry between Straits Settlements government and Chinese Consulate in Singapore (1877-1894) / Lim How Seng; Sales of Qing titles and the Chinese leadership in Singapore (1877-1912) / Yen Ching-hwang -- Straits-born Chinese. The colonial state in the making of a Peranakan community / Kwa Chong Guan; The Peranakan's interconnected world: hybridity, diversity and challenges / John Teo; Peranakan community and culture / Ng Fooi Beng -- Confucianism revived in early Singapore and Malaya, 1899-1911 / Yen Ching-hwang -- Chinese business community. Bang trade specialisation of the Chinese community in Singapore / Cheng Lim Keak; Chinese business in Singapore: a historical and historiographical survey / Koh Keng We; Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry: an institution in transition / Jeremy Goh -- Chinese printing and dailies. 19th-century printing in the Chinese language / Lee Ching Seng; A century of the Chinese dailies / Choi Kwai Keong -- Chinese education. Development of Chinese education in Singapore (1819-1979) / Lim Guan Hock; A window into Nanyang University: controversy over the 1965 Wang Gungwu report / H