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BEHIND BARBED WIRE: CHINESE NEW VILLAGES DURING THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY

Call no.: : 305.89510595/TAN
Author: : Tan Teng Phee
Contributor: : Freddy Anak Lanyau
Summary: This unique book relives the moment when approximately 500,000 women, children, and men left their homes during the Malayan emergency, moved into new settlements, and were guarded by the police and army day and night. Most of them are rural Chinese: market gardeners, shopkeepers, rice farmers, tin miners and rubber diggers, who have long made Malaya their home and have experienced the hardships of the Japanese occupation