Lat Pau

Lat Pau
The Lat Pau, 28 August 1890
Founder(s)See Ewe Lay
PublisherLat Pau Press Ltd
FoundedDecember 1881
LanguageChinese
Ceased publicationMarch 1932
Lat Pau
Traditional Chinese叻報
Simplified Chinese叻报
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLè Bào
Wade–GilesLê4 Pao4
Hakka
Romanizationliag6 bau5
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinglek1 bou3
Southern Min
Hokkien POJLa̍t Pò
Teochew Peng'imlag8 bo3

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 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]

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