$20 for STGS or AREU members
$30 for non-members of STGS or AREU
$30 for members of the public (limited time promotional rate)

2 hours

English

Thursday, 29 October 2026, 14:00 PM - 16:00 PM [English]

C - Physical/Virtual Lectures

1 - Content Knowledge

73 Dunlop St, #03-01, Singapore 209401

Please note that there is no lift or escalator in the building

Upon completion of the lecture, a Statement of Attendance (SOA) will be issued to you

Name five memorable things about Chinatown, and they are likely small businesses or linked to business.

Drawing from his new book Shopkeepers of Chinatown, historian and author Dr Loh Kah Seng takes you into the old town as a unique shopkeepers’ world.

Discover:

How the simple act of buying and selling goods and services on a large scale gave rise to Chinatown’s rich atmosphere and social life; and
The remarkable stories of several surviving heritage businesses, including why the founders started the trade, and how their successors are fighting to keep the businesses alive.

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Dr Loh Kah Seng

Historian and
Co-Author of Shopkeepers of Chinatown

Dr Loh Kah Seng is a historian. He is interested in all things that have happened in Singapore and the little histories of its people.

His books include:

Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (NUS Press, 2013);

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018: Disease, Society and the State (Routledge, 2020);

Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th Century Singapore (Pagesetters, 2021);

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819-2022: Lessons for the Age of COVID-19 (Routledge, 2024); and

Shopkeepers of Chinatown: Singapore’s Business World in Motion, 1819-2025 (SIRD, 2026).