Lat Pau

Lat Pau (Chinese: 叻報; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: La̍t Pò; Wade–Giles: Lê⁴ Pao⁴) was one of the earliest Chinese-language newspapers published in Singapore under the Straits Settlements. It was first published in December 1881 by See Ewe Lay (Chinese: 薛有禮; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sih Ū-lé) under Lat Pau Press Ltd (Chinese: 叻報有限公司). It was published for 52 years, ending in March 1932. It was Singapore's longest-running local-run Chinese newspaper before World War II.^[1][2][3]

Lat Pau

The Lat Pau, 28 August 1890
Founder(s)	See Ewe Lay
Publisher	Lat Pau Press Ltd
Founded	December 1881
Language	Chinese
Ceased publication	March 1932

Lat Pau
Traditional Chinese	叻報
Simplified Chinese	叻报
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lè Bào Wade–Giles Lê4 Pao4 Hakka Romanization liag6 bau5 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping lek1 bou3 Southern Min Hokkien POJ La̍t Pò Teochew Peng'im lag8 bo3

Lat Pau initially was published in Classical Chinese. In 1925 the newspaper started publishing in Vernacular Chinese. The newspaper's first editor was Yeh Chi Yun.^[4]

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  The Lat Pau, 6 January 1925, after the switch to Vernacular Chinese.

References

1. Lo-Fen I, Smoking and Patriotism: A Study of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company’s Advertisements on Lat Pau During the May Fourth Movement Period A Discourse on the Gothic Style in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi (Strange Chinese Stories) Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Journal of National Taiwan Normal University, Volume 54, No.2 (Linguistics & Literature).
2. 張麗萍, 叻報復刊的《荒島》, Fo Guang University
3. Lat Pau, National University of Singapore Library
4. Tan, Ban Huat (16 September 1977). "Chinese newspaper pioneer in Southeast Asia -Mr. Yeh Chi-yun". The Straits Times. Singapore. Retrieved 17 July 2022.

External links

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