Editorials in Malay Vernacular Newspapers
bibliography
list of extracts
text notes
list of words
list of rhyme words

Bibliography

The MCP text
Based on:
The Language of the Editorials in Malay Editorials in Malay Vernacular Newspapers up to 1941, ed. Mohd. Taib bin Osman, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1966.
Location references:
to the pages of the printed edition.
Statistics:
9767 words, including 19 verses
Dates:
1877-1935.   (For dates of individual items, refer to the list of editorials.)
Provenance:
Singapore and the Malay states
 
Editorial notes
 
As one of the editor's aims was to investigate the adoption of English terminology, the texts include English words.   Where possible these have been indexed also in their Malay forms.
References:
  • William R. Roff, Bibliography of Malay and Arabic Periodicals published in the Straits Settlements and Peninsular Malay States 1876-1941 with an annotated union list of holdings in Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom, London: O.U.P., 1972 (London Oriental Bibliographies, volume 3).
  • William R. Roff, The Origins of Malay Nationalism, Yale University Press, 1967 (Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 2).
  • A.C. Milner, The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
 
Preparation
Added:  March 2003
The printed text was double-scanned for the MCP in Canberra.  The spelling has been modernised, but the marking of reduplication has been retained as reflecting the practice of the original.