Legacy of Colonial Era Postcards from British Malaya to the Present

Farish A. Noor is Professor of Political History at the Faculty of Social Science FOSS, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia UIII. His work has focused on 19th century colonial Southeast Asia, looking at the modalities of racialised colonial-capitalism in the region. His recent works include Peta dan Kekuasaan (Mapping and Power, Lestari Hikmah, 2025), Data-Collecting in 19th Century Colonial Southeast Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and America's Encounters with Southeast Asia 1800-1900 (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).

• A Note Spelling, Introduction: The Legacy of Colonial Images of British Malaya, from Past to Present, 1.Frozen Before The Camera: Visual Depictions of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asians from the Time of Sebastian Munster to The Era of The Postcard, 2. The Baskets They Weave: The Reproduction of the Stereotype of the Agrarian Malay in Colonial-Era Photo-Postcards, 3. Everyone, To Your Positions: 'Racial-Ethnic' Postcards and the Reproduction of Colonial Multiculturalism in British Malaya, 4. Forever Caught: The Legacy of the Visuals of Empire in the Postcolonial Present, Appendix A: The promotional ads for Malaysian tourism hosted on the Tourism Malaysian Youtube channel Malaysia Truly Asia. Appendix B: Complexifying and De-Orientalizing the Countryside in Alternative Malaysian Media Today, Appendix C: Photo-Postcards from British Malaya (Perak, Penang and Singapore), Bibliography