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100 1 $aChen, Dinghui,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBehind barbed wire :$bChinese new villages during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 /$cTan Teng Phee.
264 1 $aPetaling Jaya, Malaysia :$bSIRD,$c2020
300 $axxiv, 318 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index.
505 0 $aPart 1. The Malayan emergency. 1. Introduction: the nature of the Malayan emergency ; 2. The birth of the new villages ; 3. Behind barbed wire ; 4. Remaking the unknown subject ; 5. Discipline and resistance -- Part 2. Lives. 6. Bertram Valley New Village, Pahang ; 7. Gunung Hijau New Village, Pusing, Perak ; 8. Pulai, Kelantan ; 9. Tras New Village, Pahang ; 10. Conclusions: great social experiment or traumatic uprooting.
546 $aIn English.
520 $aThis unique book revisits the moment in the Malayan Emergency when some 500,000 women, children and men were uprooted from their homes and moved into new settlements, guarded day and night by police and troops. A majority were rural Chinese: market gardeners, shopkeepers, rice farmers, tin miners and rubber tappers who had long made Malaya their home and had lived through the hardships of the Japanese Occupation. Based upon newly accessible archival materials and painstaking multilingual interviews with more than 80 informants in four New Villages, Tan Teng Phee rewrites the history of the Emergency, exposing the voices of those at the heart of this lauded 'social experiment'. In Francis Loh's words, these were ordinary villagers 'caught in the crossfire between the British security forces and the Malayan Communist Party' whose lives were turned inside-out and re-ordered completely, with daily curfews, body searches and food controls alongside the carrots and sticks of registration, (re)education, sanitation, psychological warfare and swift punishment. Highlighting the disciplinary aims of British policy, as well as the ways in which villagers resisted this discipline through 'weapons of the weak', this book forms a unique history from below of the Malayan Emergency, and of a resettlement programme which shaped the social and geographical landscape of Malaysia for generations to come.
650 0 $aChinese$zMalaysia$xHistory.
650 0 $aChinese$zMalaysia$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aMalaya$xHistory$yMalayan Emergency, 1948-1960.
647 7 $aMalayan Emergency$c(Malaya :$d1948-1960)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01353609
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
710 2 $aStrategic Info Research Development,$eissuing body.
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