The South Seas Society (Chinese: 南洋学会; pinyin: Nányáng Xúehuì) is a scholarly society in Singapore, which promotes research on Southeast Asia (Nanyang, lit.
[2] The founding of a Chinese society for Southeast Asian studies was unprecedented, as no such organisation or scholarly journal existed in the 1940s.
[3] The Society attracted scholars from around the world, including Britain, the US, Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, etc.
[4] The Society started the Journal of The South Seas Society (Chinese: 南洋学报; pinyin: Nányáng Xúebào) in 1940, to publish articles, notices, book reviews, etc.
on Southeast Asian studies by scholars around the world, in both Chinese and English.