The release of my book, Ten Thousand Prosperities, for sale to the public is quite imminent, which necessitates my writing today's blog post. It all depends on my publisher and I hear that there are already pre-launch orders coming in from Singapore. On my part, I'd like to show here the front and back of the book jacket. [LATEST: Mail orders are now available from my publisher's website. Price per book is RM65. For the moment, delivery within Malaysia is free of charge until further notice. Global shipping is also possible but please check from the website.]
The jacket, with its meticulous line drawing of the original Ban Hin Lee Bank building in Beach Street, was visualised and created by Peta Yeap, a fourth-generation descendant of bank founder Yeap Chor Ee and the daughter of Stephen Yeap Leong Huat who was the deputy chairman during the merger process with Southern Bank. Peta is presently based in New York and is a designer at Karim Rashid, Inc.
The back cover contains a short synopsis on the book and also includes three comments from Andrew Sheng, Anwar Fazal and Ooi Kee Beng. The summarised comments from Andrew Sheng and Anwar Fazal were taken from the Introduction and Foreword which they had written separately for the book.
Andrew Sheng was previously from Bank Negara Malaysia and is presently a distinguished fellow of the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong. Anwar Fazal is a well-known social activist and currently the chairman of Think City which is deeply involved with heritage programmes in George Town. Meanwhile, Ooi Kee Beng is the executive director of Penang Institute, the state government's think tank
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