Research Catalog

Title

Dialogues with Chin Peng : new light on the Malayan Communist Party / edited by C.C. Chin and Karl Hack.

Publication

Singapore : Singapore University Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chin, C. C.
• Hack, Karl
• Chen, Jian, 1940-

Description

xviii, 413 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Subjects

• History
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Guerrillas > Congresses
• Chin, Peng, 1924-2013 > Congresses
• Dialogues > Congresses
• Communists > Malaysia > Malaya > Congresses
• Malaya > History > Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 > Congresses
• Malayan Communist Party History > Congresses
• Chin, Peng, 1924- > Congresses
• Guerrillas > Malaysia > Malaya > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "Dialogues and papers originating from a workshop with Chin Peng held at the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, Australian National University, Canberra, 22-23 February 1999"--Added t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-395) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Background -- The Malayan emergency / Karl Hack and C. C. Chin -- Chin Peng -- a brief introduction / C. C. Chin -- Pt. 2. Dialogues with Chin Peng -- Early history of the Malayan Communist Party -- The Japanese period -- The legal period : 1945-8 -- Adoption of the armed struggle in 1948 and Malayan Communist Party strategy : 1948-55 -- Guerrilla strategies and British counterinsurgency in the 1950s-60s : why was the war lost? -- The Baling talks of 1955 -- Opposition to Malaysia and relations with the Partai Komunis Indonesia and Borneo parties -- Party strategy from Malayan independence, through the 'second emergency' of the 1970s, to the 1989 ceasefire -- Closing comments : Chin Peng and the Malayan Nationalist cause -- Pt. 3. Supporting material and perspectives -- An overview of the Malayan Communist movement to 1942 / C. F. Yong -- The Malayan Communist Party, Lai Teck and the Japanese period : 1942-5 / Yoji Akashi -- The legal period : 1945-8 : the Malayan Communist Party and its relations with Malays, British and 'bourgeois Nationalists' / Cheah Boon Kheng -- The revolutionary programmes and their effect on the struggle of the Malayan Communist Party / C. C. Chin -- The adoption of the armed struggle by the Malayan Communist Party in 1948 / Peter Edwards -- Notes on the adoption of armed struggle in 1948 and questions on the first Malayan emergency in peninsular Malaysia / Leon Comber -- Questions on the Malayan Communist Party struggle / John Coates -- Questions on the objectives of the Malayan Communist Party struggle / Anthony Short -- Communist policy and support : 1948-57 / Karl Hack -- Guerrilla strategies and British counterinsurgency strategies of the 1950s and 1960s : why was the war lost? / Richard Stubbs -- From Baling to Merdeka : 1955-60 / Karl Hack -- The formation of Malaysia (1961-3) and 'Konfrontasi' (1963-6) : the role of the Malayan Communist Party and other leftist forces / Jamie Mackie -- Key issues and questions in the history of the Malayan Communist Party from the 1960s to the 1980s / Hara Fujio -- The Malayan Communist Party and the Asal (Orang Asli) / John D. Leary -- In search of the revolution : a brief biography of Chin Peng / C. C. Chin.

ISBN

• 9971692872 (pbk.)
• 9789971692872 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004348786

OCLC

• 55601623
• SCSB-11052263

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library