Tiang knew it might be hard to land an English-language publisher for a story collection from a Singaporean author writing under a pseudonym. But there was one publisher, a small press in Britain ...

Employing her rigour as a historian and researcher, Chi Yin adopted art historian, Gabrielle Moser’s concept of the ...

British lawyers and Malaysian politicians say a formal apology is morally sensible and would help the family members of ...

The revolution will be presented as history — and socialist and communist ideas as done and dusted ... of victims of British imperialism during the Bengal famine, the “Malayan emergency” or the ...

A total of 24 villagers in Batang Kali were murdered by British soldiers on Dec 12, 1948 on suspicion of harbouring members of the Malayan communist party, which had launched an insurgency ...

At a traffic light near Ipoh Hospital, two men of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) on a motorcycle pulled alongside his official car. They wore white school uniforms—a cruel disguise that would have ...

In this period the English-educated non-Communist wing of the party, and the mostly Chinese-educated pro-Communists, had been in an increasingly uneasy alliance. ___STEADY_PAYWALL___ In 1955 the ...

Although avowedly anti-colonial it was committed to non-violence to distinguish itself from the Malayan Communist Party. By the late 1940s India, Burma and Ceylon had all gained their independence.

She then offers vignettes of groups that considered themselves to be Maoist, including the Malayan Communist Party in the late 1940s, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, the Shining Path movement in Peru and the ...