Lat Pau
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The Lat Pau, 28 August 1890
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| Founder(s) | See Ewe Lay |
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| Publisher | Lat Pau Press Ltd |
| Founded | December 1881 |
| Language | Chinese |
| Ceased publication | March 1932 |
| Headquarters |  Singapore |
| Website | N.A. |
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| Traditional Chinese | 叻報 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 叻报 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Lat Pau (Chinese: 叻報) was one of the earliest Chinese-language newspapers published in Singapore. It was firstly published by See Ewe Lay (Chinese: 薛有礼) in name of Lat Pau Press Ltd (Chinese: 叻報有限公司) since December 1881, and in circulation for 52 years until its final print at March 1932, where makes it become to be the longest local-running Chinese newspaper in the pre-World War II.[1][2][3]
Lat Pau initially was published in Classical Chinese, however from 1925 onwards, the newspaper switched to use Vernacular Chinese.
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The Lat Pau, 6 January 1925, after the switch to Vernacular Chinese.
References
- ↑ 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), Journal of National Taiwan Normal University, Volume 54, No.2 (Linguistics & Literature).
- ↑ 張麗萍, 叻報復刊的《荒島》, Fo Guang University
- ↑ Lat Pau, National University of Singapore Library
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