Chan Chow Wah – Screening of \u201cLight on the Lotus Hill\u201d and post-screening talk<\/strong><\/p>\nLight on the Lotus Hill” is a research project by Chan CW to document a chapter of the almost forgotten history of Singapore and World War Two. After 5 years of research in Singapore, China, Malaysia, and UK, the book was published on 28 May 2009. It documents the life of a Buddhist monk, Venerable Pu Liang, who supported China Relief Fund’s fund raising activities in Nanyang, today’s South East Asia. The Venerable also offered temple grounds for the training of Nanyang Volunteers who later drove on the Burma Road.<\/p>\n
After the fall of Singapore, the Venerable was executed by the Japanese during the Chinese massacre. During the research, a British POW’s daughter helped provided vital evidence as her father, a British POW at Changi, witnessed the execution. This research offers an alternative understand of World War Two and how Nanyang Chinese occupied multiple spaces of wars in China and Colonial Singapore. These parallel worlds collapse into one dark reality as the Japanese invaded Singapore converging Sino Japanese War with World War Two.<\/p>\n
Speaker\u2019s bio: By training an anthropologist, Chan graduated with a Masters in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics. He was a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow in 2006, a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, and a Member of the American Anthropological Association, USA. He is also a Member of the International Oral History Association. His publications include the book \u201cLight on the Lotus Hill\u201d and the article \u201cStorm in Shuang Lin\u201d published in the
\nApril 2007 issue of Biblioasia.<\/p>\n
The video has a trailer of the documentary followed by the q&a. The screening itself is\u00a0\u00a0 not included for copyright reasons<\/p>\n