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"Melaka (Malacca)" as a book category denotes works that center on the historic port city and region on the Malay Peninsula—its people, places, past and present. It includes scholarly histories and archival studies of the Malay sultanate and successive colonial regimes (Portuguese, Dutch, British), travelogues and guidebooks that trace the city's maritime role on the Strait of Malacca, and cultural and ethnographic accounts of its multicultural communities (Malay, Peranakan, Chinese, Indian, Eurasian). The category also embraces historical and contemporary fiction set in Melaka, local folklore and religious life, food and art books celebrating Peranakan cuisine and heritage architecture, urban conservation and tourism studies, and biographies or memoirs tied to the city. Overall it signals works that illuminate Melaka’s layered trade, colonial and cultural significance and its ongoing identity as a UNESCO World Heritage site and living crossroads of Southeast Asia.

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