The Sarawak Chinese

The Sarawak Chinese
Author: John M. Chin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Chinese in Malaysia

The Chinese in Malaysia
Author: Kam Hing Lee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Provides informative description and analysis of the historical, economic, political and socio-cultural development of the Chinese in this country -- Book jacket.

The Hakkas of Sarawak

The Hakkas of Sarawak
Author: Kee Howe Yong
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442667982

This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be “sacrificial gifts” to the war on communism and to the rule of Malaysia’s judicial-administrative regime. The Hakkas of Sarawak looks at how these incarcerated people struggled for survival and dealt with their defeat over the course of a generation. Using methodologies of narrative theory and exchange theory, Kee Howe Yong provides a powerful account of the ongoing legacies of Cold War oppression and its impact on the lives of people who were victimized by these policies.

Chinese Politics in Sarawak

Chinese Politics in Sarawak
Author: Ung-Ho Chin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book explores how Sarawak's oldest political party has been able to change from a left-wing anti-Malaysia political entity into an establishment Barisan Nasional (BN) component party without losing the support of the Sarawak Chinese community.

Communism in Malaysia and Singapore

Communism in Malaysia and Singapore
Author: Justus M. Kroef
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9401504997

Although in the past few years occasional brief monographs on se lected aspects of the Communist movement in some parts of the Singapore-Malaysian area have been published, a comprehensive booklength study has not appeared thus far. The present volume is an initial step in that direction. It is, in the main, a political survey which has taken account of social and economic factors only when the par ticular focus of the book demanded it. Since most of what has been written up till now about Communism in Singapore and Malaysia has concerned itself with the Malayan guerilla insurgency and its various ramifications in the late forties and fifties, the following pages have placed primary emphasis on events in the last five years, especially on the period since the formation of the Federation of Malaysia on Sep tember 16, 1963. The absence, moreover, ofa formal "above ground" Malaysian Communist Party today has of necessity structured this inquiry in terms of the operations of various shifting Communist fronts and their relationship to the problems of the present Singapore and Malaysian political environment upon which they feed. Communism in Malaysia today, as Malaysian security officials whom this writer interviewed, repeatedly emphasized, is a matter of scattered eruptions and comparatively isolated front activity with few if any inter-organizational linkages. Research certainly confirms a picture of a rather fragmented movement. Along with Malaysia's geographic peculiarities this circumstance has dictated a region by region approach in the following pages.

South China Sea Lawfare

South China Sea Lawfare
Author: Fu-Kuo Liu
Publisher: South China Sea Think Tank
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9869282830

South China Sea Lawfare: Post-Arbitration Policy Options and Future Prospects is the second of two reports in the series published by the South China Sea Think Tank. Published shortly after the tribunal issued its final award in the Philippines v. China arbitration case in July 2016, the report is the result of a collaborative effort by an international team of authors and incorporates the diverse perspectives of claimants and non-claimant stakeholders in the South China Sea maritime territorial disputes.

Identity Politics and Elections in Malaysia and Indonesia

Identity Politics and Elections in Malaysia and Indonesia
Author: Karolina Prasad
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-12-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317520270

In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think of each society as one with multiple ethnic dimensions, of which any can become activated in the process of political competition - and sometimes several of them within a short period of time. Focusing on Malaysia and Indonesia, this book traces the variations of ethnic identity by looking at electoral strategies in two sub-national units. It shows that ethnic identities are subject to change - induced by calculated moves by political entrepreneurs who use identities as tools to maximize their chances of winning elections or expanding support base - and highlights how political institutions play an enormous role in shaping the modes and dynamics of these ethno-political manipulations. The book suggests that in societies where ethnic identities are activated in politics, instead of analysing politics with ethnic distribution as an independent variable, ethnic distribution can be taken as the dependent variable, with political institutions being the explanatory one. It examines the problems of voters’ behaviour, and parties’ and candidates’ strategy in a polity that is, to a significant extent, driven by ethnic relations. Pushing the boundaries of qualitative research on Southeast Asian politics by placing formal institutions at the centre of its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian Politics, Race and Ethnic Studies, and International Relations.

Building a Normative Order in the South China Sea

Building a Normative Order in the South China Sea
Author: Tran Truong Thuy
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2019
Genre: Geopolitics
ISBN: 1786437538

The South China Sea, where a number of great powers and regional players contend for influence, has emerged as one of the most potentially explosive regions in the world today. What can be done to reduce the possibility of conflict, solve the outstanding territorial problems, and harness the potential of the sea to promote regional development, environmental sustainability and security? This book, with contributions from leading authorities in China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore and the United States, seeks to illuminate these questions.

Pacific Affairs

Pacific Affairs
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1964
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Includes book reviews and bibliographies.