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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I conceived this project in 2011 but it was not till 2013 that I managed to persuade the National Library Board to take this project under its wing and to provide funding for its execution. For this, I am eternally grateful to Elaine Ng, former Chief Executive of the National Library Board (NLB) and her team at NLB, including Tay Ai Cheng, Wai Yin Pryke, Wong Siok Muoi, Francis Dorai and Sharon Koh. I am also most grateful to the many unnamed fact-checkers at the NLB who saved us from the most egregious errors. Research for this project was undertaken by a team of researchers under the charge of Tan Teng Teng of Art Logica who was unstinting in her efforts to get down to the nth detail. My co-editors, G Uma Devi and Kua Bak Lim, helped lighten my load considerably. The project benefited greatly from Bak Lim’s encyclopedic command of Chinese materials and sources. Tan Kok Eng, with whom I have shared many publishing journeys, was the steadfast eagle-eye and checked through the typography and proofs to make this copy as clean as humanly possible. I would also like to thank members of the public who contributed and commented on the earlier version of this volume when it was released in April 2016 as an eBook. Last but not least, thanks to Chua Ai Lin, former President of the Singapore Heritage Society and her Executive Committee for keeping steadfast faith in us and for supporting this project wholeheartedly.

KEVIN YL TAN