Playing for Malaya
Author: Rebecca Kenneison
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Published: 2013-07-15
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9971697327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stunning personal account of a Eurasian family living in Malaya during WWII.
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The Special Operations Executive in Malaya
Author: Rebecca Kenneison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-05-30
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1350118575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya. There they worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent army of the Malayan Emergency. This book traces the development of SOE's Malayan operations, and analyses the interactions between SOE and the various guerrilla groups. It explores the reasons for and the extent of Malay disillusionment with Japanese rule, and demonstrates how guerrilla service acted as a training ground for some later Malay leaders of the independent nation. However, the reports written about the MPAJA by SOE operatives just after the war failed to draw out the likely future threat posed by the communists to the returning colonial administration. Rebecca Kenneison shows that the British possessed a wealth of local information, but failed to convert it into active intelligence in the period prior to the Malayan Emergency. In doing so she provides new insights into the impact of SOE on Malayan politics, the nature of Malayan communism's challenge to colonial rule, and British post-war intelligence in Malaya.
Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Malaya
Author: Donna J. Amoroso
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2014-05-26
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9971698145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this original and perceptive study Donna J. Amoroso argues that the Malay elites' preeminent position after the Second World War had much to do with how British colonialism reshaped old idioms and rituals _ helping to (re)invent a tradition. In doing so she illuminates the ways that traditionalism reordered the Malay political world, the nature of the state and the political economy of leadership. In the postwar era, traditionalism began to play a new role: it became a weapon which the Malay aristocracy employed to resist British plans for a Malayan Union and to neutralise the challenge coming groups representing a more radical, democratic perspective and even hijacking their themes. Leading this conservative struggle was Dato Onn bin Jaafar, who not only successfully helped shape Malay opposition to the Malayan Union but was also instrumental in the creation of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that eventually came to personify an ïacceptable Malay nationalismÍ. Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya is an important contribution to the history of colonial Malaya and, more generally, to the history of ideas in late colonial societies.
Two Plays about Malaya
Author: Mona Brand
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloating on a Malayan Breeze
Author: Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9888139312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own paths. Malaysia has given preference to the majority Malay Muslims—the bumiputera, or sons of the soil. Singapore, meanwhile, has tried to build a meritocracy—ostensibly colour-blind, yet more encouraging perhaps to some Singaporeans than to others. How have these policies affected ordinary people? How do these two divergent nations now see each other and the world around them? Seeking answers to these questions, two Singaporeans set off to cycle around Peninsular Malaysia, armed with a tent, two pairs of clothes and a daily budget of three US dollars each. They spent 30 days on the road, cycling through every Malaysian state, and chatting with hundreds of Malaysians. Not satisfied, they then went on to interview many more people in Malaysia and Singapore. What they found are two countries that have developed economically but are still struggling to find their souls.
The Postwar Rapprochement of Malaya and Japan 1945-61
Author: J. Tomaru
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2000-06-05
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0230288286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author analyses the development of postwar Malayo-Japanese rapprochement from the resumption of unofficial economic relations to establishment of formal diplomatic relations, which happened along with the return of British administration in Malaya and Malayan decolonisation. The focus is placed on the role of Britain as the suzerain of Malaya, in facilitating Japanese return to Malaya. The motivations behind the keen promotion of rapprochement by Malayan and Japanese leaders through the exchange of Prime Ministerial visits are also closely discussed.
Red Star Over Malaya
Author: Boon Kheng Cheah
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9789971692742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Based on extensive archival research in Malaysia, Great Britain, Japan and the United States, Red Star Over Malay provides an account of the way the Japanese occupation reshaped colonial Malaya, and of the tension-filled months that followed surrender. This book, now in its third edition, is fundamental to an understanding of social and political developments in Malaysia during the second half of the 20th century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Love & Terror in Malaya
Author: Michael Baudrier
Publisher: Michael Baudrier
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781412051712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLove and Terror has a historic background: the Malay Emergency; actually a guerilla war fought between Malayans and Japanese occupiers of Malaya (1942-45) that later became a war against the returning British by Malayan communists (mostly of Chinese extraction) and lasted until the late fifties. Spike, a British sapper, together withe two comrades is flown to Singapore in 1947. The Japanese are still in Malaya, but in POW work camps. Spike soon adapts to the Malay culture, learns the language with the help of Malay friends and lovers, and is transferred to a Malay training battalion as interpreter. He also meets and has an affair with a Chinese-Malayan taxi-dancer, Angelene (a.k.a, Aiwa Kam), sister of Ying Kam, a communist leader. His first love, the Malay woman, Kamariah, has a young son, Daud, who is kidnapped by the communist terrorists (CTs) in an attempt to persuade Kamariah to get information from Spike about a cache of arms hidden in the house in which he was quartered. Daud is executed by Ying Kam. Spike accepts Islam and marries Kamariah; tries to remain in Malaya, but is repatriated to Britain. When Ying Kam is betrayed by a comrade who is seeking the large reward offered by the British, he is ambushed and injured, but escapes. Incognito in a hospital, where Kamariah's sister is a nurse, Ying Kam is exposed and captured by Kamariah. She assists in the capture of other CTs and becomes a rich woman. Comrades of Spike have different encounters in Malaya, and later in Britain. Taffy, marries a Chinese-Malayan and stays on as an estate manager. He is ambushed and assassinated by CTs. The book, Love and Terror, illustrates many features of Malay, Chinese, and British culture and how they interact. East and West do meet in many instances.
Lions and Tigers: The Story of Football in Singapore and Malaysia
Author: John Duerden
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9814794201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough attending games and talking to players, coaches, media and fans from the past and the present, seasoned football correspondent John Duerden charts the history of the rivalry in the past, captures a snapshot of the rivalry as it is and casts a look at the future. It won't be just about the big games but about players from one country that played in another and the recent sojourn of Lions XII in Malaysia and Harimau Muda in the S-League. From meetings between the two national teams and clubs to tales from the times when they both sent teams to compete in the other’s league, Lions and Tigers describes how Singapore and Malaysia feel about each other and how it all looks to an outsider between the two countries with comments from both nations—from coaches, players and key stakeholders, and also journalists and fans of the beautiful game.
Malaya's Secret Police 1945-60
Author: Leon Comber
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9812308296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Malayan Emergency lasted from 1948 to 1960. During these tumultuous years, following so soon after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, the whole country was once more turned upside down and the lives of the people changed. The war against the Communist Party of Malaya's determined efforts to overthrow the Malayan government involved the whole population in one form or another. Dr Comber analyses the pivotal role of the Malayan Police's Special Branch, the government's supreme intelligence agency, in defeating the communist uprising and safeguarding the security of the country. He shows for the first time how the Special Branch was organised and how it worked in providing the security forces with political and operational intelligence. His book represents a major contribution to our understanding of the Emergency and will be of great interest to all students of Malay(si)a's recent history as well as counter-guerrilla operations. It can profitably be mined, too, to see what lessons can be learned for counterinsurgency operations in other parts of the world.
