The map that renamed a river
A note on Pedro Reinel, Rio Formoso, and the strange feeling of finding Batu Pahat on a sixteenth-century Portuguese chart.
Incense smoke in Hanjiang
Photographs from the ancestral hall and a reflection on why ritual is often understood only after leaving home.
Blue Mansion, Penang
An indigo courtyard, a bonsai tree, and the lesson that old heritage mansions teach you how to look before they tell you who lived there.