Places of Worship In Penang Photographed by The Traveller, Jules Claine
By Anne Tan
April 2025 FEATURE
JULES CLAINE WAS a French explorer and diplomat who spent a year travelling across Malaysia in 1889 and 1890, photographing and commenting upon all that he saw and encountered here. This he published in Un An En Malaisie (One Year in Malaysia), and gave a paper for the 9th International Congress of Orientalists in London in 1891. He appeared on the cover of the Journal des Voyages, where his travels were featured as the cover story.Instalments of his story appeared...
Anne Tan
is a retired academic (Deakin University, Melbourne) with a publishing history both internal and external. She has published articles on East Asiatic Company’s teak explorations in Siam and Laos at the beginning of the 20th century and has recently completed documenting a photo album recording an intrepid teak journey conducted by both East Asiatic Company personnel and an affiliated company, L’Est Asiatique Francaise. Anne has travelled to Penang from Australia more times than she can count and considers Penang her second home.
