Download or read book Memories of Singapore and Malaya written by Derek Tait and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of Singapore and Malaya during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s through the eyes of members of the Forces and their families.

Download or read book Memories of Malaya written by June Meyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of Malaya gives an account of colonial life prior to the Independance of Malaya in 1957. The collection of short stories paints an interesting picture of the many cultures, traditions and ways of life.The book is filled with amusing anecdotes, a description of post war Malaya and how different nationalities lived side by side in the 1930's and 1940's. An interesting personal account is given of the family's harrowing escape from the pursuing Japanese invasion down through Malaya to Singapore in 1941. The story continues with an insight into the Communist Emergency years which followed the Second World War.Memories of Malaya is a charming portrait of the author's personal experience and impressions of the era.

Download or read book More Memories of Singapore and Malaya written by Derek Tait and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore written by Patricia Pui Huen Lim and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of selected papers presented at a workshop on War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II, plus two additional papers. The papers reveal the importance of oral history where documentary records are lacking.

Download or read book War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore written by Karl Hack and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya's jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation would last three and a half years, until the return of the British in September 1945. How is this period remembered? And how have individuals, communities, and states shaped and reshaped memories in the postwar era? The book response to these questions, presenting answers that use the words of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians, British and Australians who personally experienced the war years. The authors guide readers through many forms of memory: from the soaring pillars of Singapore's Civilian War Memorial, to traditional Chinese cemeteries in Malaysia; and from families left bereft by Japanese massacres, to the young women who flocked to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, dreaming of a march on Delhi. This volume provides a forum for previously marginalized and self-censored voices, using the stories they relate to reflect on the nature of conflict and memory. They also offer a deeper understanding of the searing transit from wartime occupation to post-war decolonization and the moulding of postcolonial states and identities.

Download or read book Distant Archipelagos written by Peter Moss and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He dropped money bags from low-flying biplanes on remote rubber plantations and tin mines, spent nights in deep jungle longhouses, aboard fishing kelongs manned by aboriginals far out at sea, in mosquito-infested swamps collecting malarial parasites and on beaches where giant leatherback turtles came to lay their eggs. He accompanied commonwealth troops hunting for terrorists on the Thai-Malaysian border, flew reconnaissance patrols seeking guerilla camps and escorted Field Marshal Templer on his return visit to the country he had liberated from communist insurrection. He met Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the architect of India's independence, interviewed actors Orson Welles and Sir Donald Wolfit, and was conversing with the French Ambassador when a ghost walked into the room. He worked with William Holden, Susannah York and Capucine on a film in which nearly everyone ended up miscast. He helped conceal an escaped prisoner in a hilarious fake jail-break, trailed the Sultan of Pahang on a regal progress through Malaysia's largest state and befriended one of President Soekarno's infamous red beret parachutists, sent on a sabotage mission during the height of Indonesian confrontation. Mostly he loved the land and its people, so much that he shunned the cocktail circuit and the city life for the simple pleasures of the kampong and the open road, learning the language and feeling his way towards what French author Henry Fauconnier had called "the Soul of Malaya". With Distant Archipelagos, Peter Moss follows up his account of an Anglo-Indian childhood, in Bye-Bye Blackbird, by painting a vivid portrait of another vanished world.

Download or read book Malayan Memories written by Richard Olof Winstedt and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful memoir recounts the author's experiences as a colonial administrator in British Malaya in the early 20th century. Winstedt paints a vivid picture of life in the colonies, describing the people, places, and customs he encountered. He also reflects on the challenges of governing a diverse society under colonial rule, offering insights into the legacy of British imperialism in the region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Memories of Malaya Borneo and Vietnam written by Roy Savage ('Doc') and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What better way to understand a soldier's experiences in wartime than having access to his personal journal? Diaries record the private thoughts of the writer and give readers a first-hand account of historical events. Soldiers are subjected to an extraordinary level of stress that most civilians would never understand. As a result, they form tight bonds with their mates who they depend on in life and death situations. In Memories of Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam, Roy 'Doc' Savage (OAM, MM) shares excerpts from his diaries to help us understand the daily life of a soldier during wartime. The danger, the discomforts, the tragic losses and the lighter moments are all revealed in his book. All those who know Doc would understand that this book is not to glorify anyone but, rather, to keep the memory of those who are no longer with us alive."--Back cover.

Download or read book War Memories written by Gordon Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Malayan Memories written by Richard Winstedt and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Looking Back written by Abdul Rahman (Tunku, Putra Al-Haj) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book With the Dirty Half hundred in Malaya written by Geoffrey Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Woodsmoke and Temple Flowers written by Jean Falconer and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memory and Nation Building written by Vandana Saxena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicultural societies, the process is a messy one. Different communities remember the past from perspectives that often clash with each other. Multiple memories of a multicultural nation challenge the idea of a singular national identity and call for multiple forms of belonging. Memory and Nation-Building explores the contemporary images of World War II in Malaysian literature and the continuing significance of the conflict in the collective memory and nation-building in Malaysia. Given the multicultural nature of the nation, the War memories of Malaysia are multiple and often contradictory. In the contemporary Malaysian literature, these memories embody the search for a historical narrative that would accommodate the cultural and ethnic diversity of the country.

Download or read book Cast from the Herd written by Mohammad Bakri Musa and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast From The Herd is a cultural memoir of a young Minangkabau boy, later to become a surgeon in Silicon Valley, California, in rural Malaysia during the late 1940s to the early 60s. The Minangkabaus are the largest matriarchal society, if we include those in neighboring Indonesia. It is an account of the many seminal events, beginning with the horrors of the Japanese Occupation and the subsequent brief but equally brutal three-week reign of terror by the Chinese Communists just before the British re-established its authority immediately after the war. The two hitherto World War II allies against the Japanese became mortal enemies as each tried to gain exclusive control of Malaya, as the country was then called. That brief Chinese communist rule had a profound impact on the native Malays that still reverberates and colors Sino-Malay race relations to this day. That communist insurrection degenerated into a long guerilla warfare, euphemistically referred to as "The Emergency." It was not over till four decades later. During its early years that war was as lethal and vicious as the preceding Japanese Occupation. Malaysia remains unique in having prevailed over the communists sans any foreign help, military or otherwise, a noteworthy achievement considering that it happened at the height of the Cold War. Across the South China Sea in Vietnam, the communists prevailed over a vastly more powerful adversary. This memoir gives a ground level view of Malaysia's counterintuitive but remarkably successful strategy against the communists. While Robert McNamara and the Pentagon were consumed with "body counts" as a measure of progress in the war against the communists in Vietnam, Malaysia opted for the very opposite tactic. Its philosophy and modus of operation were simple yet effective; in fighting terrorists, first create no new ones. Every terrorist killed was a missed opportunity. Malaysian authorities saw immense propaganda value, and exploited it to the maximum, in having former comrades recant their past and lead productive lives in society. The Malaysia of the writer's childhood was also a society transiting from a feudal agrarian colony to a modern democratic independent state. It had its first general elections in 1955. Electing leaders was a novel phenomenon for a hitherto feudal society where leaders were anointed and the peasants had to obey them. In a democracy, leaders had to seek citizens' votes. That 1955 election paved the way for Malaysia's independence that came in 1957. The electoral dynamics of that first free election forced leaders and citizens alike to address the harsh reality of Malaysia's race dynamics. The last transformative event was in 1963 when Malaya expanded to form greater Malaysia through union with the other remaining British colonies of Sabah and Sarawak. That triggered an ugly diplomatic tiff with one neighbor, Philippines, and a bloody konfrontasi with another, Indonesia. Being brought up in a matriarchal society where women play major and decisive roles gave the writer a unique perspective on feminist issues. Consider the 19th Amendment to the American constitution (allowing women to vote). To someone brought up in a matriarchal society, that amendment seems quaint. Had the Framers of the Constitution been brought up in a similar society, the need for such an amendment would not have even arisen. The book chronicles the writer's experience in a colonial English school in rural Malaysia and later at a boarding school modeled after a proper English grammar school, dubbed "Eton of the East." The book ends with the writer's brief teaching career before leaving for Canada to pursue medicine, and the inevitable culture shock. Besides giving a glimpse of recent Malaysian history, this memoir shines a different perspective on feminist issues, one not appreciated by those brought up in a male-dominated society. The title is from the Indonesian Chairul Anwar's poem "Aku" (Me!).

Download or read book People Places Memories written by Angelo Nino M. Santos MD and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People. Places. Memories: Photos and Travel Stories from Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates places in its readers hands a lushly illustrated and vibrantly worded travel diary that brings to life the faces, locales, and ways of life of four lands that typically do not appear on most peoples lists of tourist destinations. Angelo Nino M. Santos, MD, has honed his photography and writing by capturing images and observations garnered through years of travel around the world and presenting his insights on his travel and food blog, Beyond Toxicity @ docgelo.com. People. Places. Memories turns Doc Gelos camera and pen to the sights and experiences of Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. He wants all who immerse themselves in the pages of this work to share in the wonders he experienced, as he notes, I keep my pictures raw with emotions I felt, with flavors I tasted, with people I met, with scents I smelled, with sounds I heard, and with experiences I encountered. Whether you have traveled to unusual and alluring destinations or desire to share in the memories of those who have made such trips themselves, People. Places. Memories: Photos and Travel Stories from Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates will fill your mind and imagination with memorable pictures and prose. By sharing the journeys of Doc Gelo, you can more deeply appreciate the vast variety of the worlds peoples and find in the most unexpected places the distinctive touches of human culture.

Download or read book Gedung Kuning written by Hidayah Amin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: