The Red Cheong-sam and Other Old Tales of Malaya and Singapore

Glimpses of life in a Colonial Era

The thirty-one stories selected for this volume portray the scandalous, tragic, violent, romantic and lighter sides of life at various levels of the segregated English and Asian communities in Malaya (now Malaysia) and Singapore under British colonial rule.

It began with the founding of Singapore in 1819 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles of the British East India Company. It ended during the dismantling process of the British Empire at the end of World War II in 1945.