Jan 1976
VOLUME 7 - NUMBER 1
Flora de Filipinas
Life in Early Hongkong
Singapore Report
The Torii School Mystery
Cover. If clothing is man’s second skin and housing his third, then the Nipa fruticans, or East Indian palm, is the collective third skin of Southeast Asia. The nipa is not only the predominant thatch material used in many Southeast Asian homes but also one of the two major sources of arrack, that potent Asian brew. The lithograph of the Nipa fruticans on our cover is from the 1878 edition of Flora de Filipinas, first published in 1837 by the Augustinian friar Manuel Blanco. Today Blanco’s study may be faulted in botanical terms, but its superb color prints are among the best botanical illustrations ever donw.
FEATURES
Nestor Torre, Jr. Starlight, Starmight
S.M. Ali. Singapore: Searching for a Direction
Mosaic Mindanao
Marcus Brooke. For Beautiful Souls – and Similes
Alejandro R. Roces. Blanco’s Flora: A Vellum Splendor
Colin Crisswell. Hongkong’s Bad Old Days
Howard A. Link. The Torii School Mystery
Princely Beggar’s Chicken
Nigel Cameron. Hon’s Harmonious Contradictions
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Myself a Mandarin: Memoirs of a Special Magistrate by Austin Coates
NEWS
Discoveries
COMMENTARY
Luning B. Ira. A Tale of Three Cities
VOLUME 7 - NUMBER 1
Flora de Filipinas
Life in Early Hongkong
Singapore Report
The Torii School Mystery
Cover. If clothing is man’s second skin and housing his third, then the Nipa fruticans, or East Indian palm, is the collective third skin of Southeast Asia. The nipa is not only the predominant thatch material used in many Southeast Asian homes but also one of the two major sources of arrack, that potent Asian brew. The lithograph of the Nipa fruticans on our cover is from the 1878 edition of Flora de Filipinas, first published in 1837 by the Augustinian friar Manuel Blanco. Today Blanco’s study may be faulted in botanical terms, but its superb color prints are among the best botanical illustrations ever donw.
FEATURES
Nestor Torre, Jr. Starlight, Starmight
S.M. Ali. Singapore: Searching for a Direction
Mosaic Mindanao
Marcus Brooke. For Beautiful Souls – and Similes
Alejandro R. Roces. Blanco’s Flora: A Vellum Splendor
Colin Crisswell. Hongkong’s Bad Old Days
Howard A. Link. The Torii School Mystery
Princely Beggar’s Chicken
Nigel Cameron. Hon’s Harmonious Contradictions
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Myself a Mandarin: Memoirs of a Special Magistrate by Austin Coates
NEWS
Discoveries
COMMENTARY
Luning B. Ira. A Tale of Three Cities
VOLUME 7 - NUMBER 1
Flora de Filipinas
Life in Early Hongkong
Singapore Report
The Torii School Mystery
Cover. If clothing is man’s second skin and housing his third, then the Nipa fruticans, or East Indian palm, is the collective third skin of Southeast Asia. The nipa is not only the predominant thatch material used in many Southeast Asian homes but also one of the two major sources of arrack, that potent Asian brew. The lithograph of the Nipa fruticans on our cover is from the 1878 edition of Flora de Filipinas, first published in 1837 by the Augustinian friar Manuel Blanco. Today Blanco’s study may be faulted in botanical terms, but its superb color prints are among the best botanical illustrations ever donw.
FEATURES
Nestor Torre, Jr. Starlight, Starmight
S.M. Ali. Singapore: Searching for a Direction
Mosaic Mindanao
Marcus Brooke. For Beautiful Souls – and Similes
Alejandro R. Roces. Blanco’s Flora: A Vellum Splendor
Colin Crisswell. Hongkong’s Bad Old Days
Howard A. Link. The Torii School Mystery
Princely Beggar’s Chicken
Nigel Cameron. Hon’s Harmonious Contradictions
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Myself a Mandarin: Memoirs of a Special Magistrate by Austin Coates
NEWS
Discoveries
COMMENTARY
Luning B. Ira. A Tale of Three Cities