Chin Kar Yern

is a researcher/writer with an interest in historical and anthropological perspectives of food, labour and community.

3 posts

Plastics Are Strange Presences, and They Are Not Going Away Anytime Soon

5 min read

WITHIN THE BEAUTY and bizarre logic of plastic is the potential it projects. It heralded multitudes of possibility in form, chemistry and design. The mass produ...

by Chin Kar Yern

Hawkers in Passing – Personal Accounts and Short Stories on Berita Harian in the 1960s

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IN 1963, a student essay for a weekly writing competition, held by Berita Harian, dubbed the bicycle the ”economic vehicle”. The author Yeow Peng Keat contempla...

by Chin Kar Yern

The Evolution of Food Discourses in Malaysia

8 min read

SOME LESSONS MAY be gleaned from the past at a time when we have become more conscious about food security, self-sufficiency and sustainability, even while traw...

by William Tham & Chin Kar Yern