Cultural Connections – Volume 3 (2018)

In commemoration of Singapore’s Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2018, the third volume of Cultural Connections is dedicated to everything ASEAN from the arts and cultural front.

It celebrates the uniqueness, beauty and richness of Southeast Asia through its essays, which have been presented in two parts. The first showcases the close and longstanding historical and people-to-people links Singapore has had with her Southeast Asian neighbours over the centuries, through thought leadership articles contributed by academics, diplomats and domain experts. The second features the interrelatedness of the histories and heritage of Southeast Asia by showcasing artefacts from the Southeast Asian collection within Singapore’s National Collection.