The Bibliography on the history of Nanyang University (in short, Nantah Bibliography) is an online open access bibliography related to the Nanyang University.
The only overseas Chinese language university founded in Singapore from 1955 to 1980. Nantah had a profound impact on the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaysia, and held a critical position in the history of Chinese education in Southeast Asia.
Research on Nantah has been a hot topic in Chinese Oversea Studies, especially in Southeast Asia but relevant resources are dispersed and not easily accessible. To facilitate research on Nantah, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Libraries initiated this research project in 2006 when a group of Chinese librarians started working on collecting, organizing and pointing readers to relevant records.
It has been a decade of collaborative research with considerable effort spent in tracing, collecting, verifying, and presenting records. In the first phase in June 2015, 15,000 records were uploaded. These include monographs, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, newspaper articles, thesis, Internet resources, audio-visual materials, government documents, and etc. It is worth mentioning that it covers many primary resources, such as 380 government documents, 298 oral history interviews, and 71 films and broadcasts. The original sources are not only from NTU Libraries, but also from other local libraries and institutions: National University of Singapore (NUS), National Library Board (NLB) and National Archives of Singapore (NAS). Most records were verified with detailed locations and call numbers indicated for easier references. The time coverage ranges from the early 1950s to the present. Bilingual keywords in English & Chinese describe each record in depth. Users can browse by types or do keywords search by title, author, subject, publisher, date, and more. Facet filters are available for users to refine search results, and users can email or print the search results.
Launch of the Bibliography
A launch ceremony was held at the Hive in NTU on 23 October 2015. Mr Chia Ban Seng, President of the Association of Nanyang University Graduates, presided over the official launch of this NTU Digital Project where about 60 guests attended the ceremony.
After speeches by University Librarian, Mr Choy Fatt Cheong; Chair of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Liu Hong, and Mr Chia Ban Seng, Associate Professor Lee Guan Kin, Distinguished Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture gave a talk on “Studies on Nanyang University: Retrospective and Prospective”. There was also a short presentation by Head of Chinese Library, Ms Ruan Yang, calling for “citizen historians” to contribute to this bibliography by checking for accuracy, contributing new records, or donating documents.
The second phase of 10,000 records of newspaper articles will be uploaded in June 2016, making this the most comprehensive bibliography related to Nanyang University. If you are interested in finding out more about this bibliography, please click here: https://eps.ntu.edu.sg/client/NanyangUniversityBib
Mr Soon Min Yam, Prof I Lo-fen, Mr Choy Fatt Cheong, Mrs Chia, Mrs Chia Ban Seng, Prof Liu Hong, Prof Lee Guan Kin, Prof Zhou Min, Ms Ruan Yang
Submitted by Ruan Yang, Head of Chinese Library, Nanyang Technological University