Pantun Baba Chan

Chan Eng Thai speaks Baba Malay as his mother tongue. Born and raised in Geylang in Singapore, he shares his deep knowledge of Peranakan Chinese culture through programs at the Peranakan Museum, the NUS Baba House and Singapore’s Peranakan Association. His favourite kuehs are pulut inti, kueh ku and apom bokkuah. He is a practicing lawyer, known by some to dish out a decent nasi ulam. This is his first book.

G. T. Lye is a Wayang Peranakan actor/playwright and pantun composer/performer. He started his career in Felix Chia’s Pileh Menantu, staged at the 1984 Singapore Arts Festival. The play was a landmark in Wayang Peranakan which sparked a revival of Chinese Peranakan theatre in Singapore. He is established as a household name for his performance of the cross-dressing Peranakan matriarch role across stage and screen. In 2020, G. T. was recognised as a Steward of Singapore’s Intangible Cultural Heritage by the National Heritage Board for his mastery in the art forms of Wayang Peranakan and Dondang Sayang.

Crop.sg is an independent multidisciplinary design studio based in Singapore, specialising in a broad range of creative work, from campaign strategies and visual identities to printed materials and digital media. Recent publication projects include Becoming Lim Tze Peng for the National Gallery Singapore, Chinese Pagodas on the World Stage for the Asian Civilizations Museum, and Olafur Eliasson: Your Curious Journey for the Singapore Art Museum.