From Insurgent To Citizen: World War, Insurgency, And Confrontation In Malaya And Singapore
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Author_Thomas Swee Leong Chow
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Confrontation
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Indonesia
Japanese Occupation
Malaya
Malayan Communist Party
Malayan Emergency
Malayan National Liberation Army
Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army
Malaysia
Malaysian Special Branch
Overseas Chinese community
Sabah
Sarawak
Singapore
Thomas Chow
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9789811272622
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2023
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is a first-person account of an overseas Chinese who was involved in the armed struggle for the independence of Malaya and Singapore and who evolved through several roles during those tumultuous times — from an anti-Japanese agent in World War II, to a communist guerrilla leader during the Emergency and subsequently to a citizen who worked for the Special Branch to defend the nation during Confrontation.The book also offers an in-depth first-person account of the history, operational methodology, struggles and ultimate failure of the Malayan Communist Party in the armed struggle and provides an in-depth analysis from a direct participant of those events. It describes the zeitgeist of the time amongst overseas Chinese in Malaya and Singapore — in the prelude to and the aftermath of World War II and the subsequent struggle of independence in a world where they had hitherto been second-class residents. Due to the inherent secrecy of the clandestine Malayan Communist Party, many of the events described in the book were not previously known; events that the protagonist in his old age now wishes to record for posterity.
