Malaysia is located on a strategic sea lane that exposes it to global trade and various cultures. The name "Malaysia" is a modern concept,created in the second half of the 20th century. However,contemporary Malaysia regards the entire history of Malaya and Borneo,spanning thousands of years back to prehistoric times,as its own history.
The Malayan Emergency,also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War(1948–1960), was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya,British Empire and Commonwealth. The communists fought to win independence for Malaya from the British Empire and to establish a socialist economy,while the Malayan Federation and Commonwealth forces fought to combat communism and protect British economic and colonial interests. The term "Emergency" was used by the British to characterise the conflict in order to avoid referring to it as a war,because London-based insurers would not pay out in instances of civil wars.
The Malayan Union was a union of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca. It was the successor to British Malaya and was conceived to unify the Malay Peninsula under a single government to simplify administration. Following opposition by the ethnic Malays,the union was reorganised as the Federation of Malaya in 1948.
Malaysian Chinese,alternatively Chinese Malaysians,are Malaysian citizens of Han Chinese ethnicity. They form the second-largest ethnic group,after the Malay majority,and are 22.4% of the Malaysian population. Most of them are descendants of Southern Chinese immigrants who arrived in Malaysia between the early 19th and the mid-20th centuries. Malaysian Chinese form the second largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world,after Thai Chinese. Malaysian Chinese are traditionally dominant in the business sector of the Malaysian economy.
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs was a British colonial governor,who was once the Governor of Hong Kong. He caused controversy while Governor of Ceylon over the Bracegirdle Incident.
Kenneth Pomeranz,FBA is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980,where he was a Telluride Scholar,and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988,where he was a student of Jonathan Spence. He then taught at the University of California,Irvine,for more than 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts &Sciences in 2006. In 2013–2014 he was the president of the American Historical Association.
Robert Jacob Alexander,Baron Skidelsky,is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). Skidelsky read history at Jesus College,Oxford,and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick,England.
The Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA),often mistranslated as the Malayan Races Liberation Army,was a communist guerrilla army that fought for Malayan independence from the British Empire during the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) and later fought against the Malaysian government in the Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989). Their leader was a trade union activist known as Chin Peng who had previously been awarded an OBE by the British for waging a guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Many MNLA fighters were former members of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) which had been previously trained and funded by the British to fight against Japan during the Second World War.
The Victoria Medal is an award presented by the Royal Geographical Society. It is awarded "for conspicuous merit in research in geography" and has been given since 1902,in honour of the late Queen Victoria. Up until then,the society's Patron's Medal had alternatively been known as the "Victoria Medal",and the new medal resembled its original design.
The British Military Administration (BMA) was the interim administrator of British Malaya from August 1945,the end of World War II,to the establishment of the Malayan Union in April 1946. The BMA was under the direct command of the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia,Lord Louis Mountbatten. The administration had the dual function of maintaining basic subsistence during the period of reoccupation,and also of imposing the state structure upon which post-war imperial power would rest.
The Communist insurgency in Malaysia,also known as the Second Malayan Emergency,was an armed conflict which occurred in Malaysia from 1968 to 1989,between the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and Malaysian federal security forces.
The Cyprus Emergency,also known as the Greek Cypriot War of Independence or the Cypriot War of Independence,was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between November 1955 and March 1959.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is an Indian historian who specialises in the early modern period and in connected history. He is the author of several books and publications. He holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA which he joined in 2004.
Reginald Hugh Hickling,CMG,QC,known as Hugh Hickling,was a British lawyer,civil servant,law academic,and author,and author of the controversial Internal Security Act of colonial Malaysia.
The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975 covers Australia's involvement in the Malayan Emergency,Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and Vietnam War. The series is an official history and was funded by the Australian Government and published by Allen &Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial. Peter Edwards was appointed the official historian for the series in 1982. The series comprises nine volumes,which were published between 1992 and 2012. A single-volume summary of the series,Australia and the Vietnam War,was published in 2014.
Richard E. Baldwin is a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva,where he has been researching globalization and trade since 1991. He was the former President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU,which he founded in June 2007. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was twice elected as a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association. Baldwin has been called "one of the most important thinkers in this era of global disruption".
Leonard Francis Comber was a British military and police officer,and later book publisher,operating in British India,Malaya,Singapore,Hong Kong and Australia. He was also an editor and author of books relating to South-East Asia.
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph was an American author,political thinker and educationist. She was a William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago and was actively interested in Politics,Political Economy and Political Sociology of South Asia,State Formation,Max Weber and the Politics of Category and Culture. The Government of India,in 2014,honored her,along with her husband,Lloyd I. Rudolph,for their services to literature and education,by bestowing on them the third highest civilian award,the Padma Bhushan.
Lloyd Irving Rudolph was an American political economist,political scientist,author,political thinker,educationist and the Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago,known for his scholarship and writings on the India social and political milieu. The Government of India,in 2014,honored Lloyd Rudolph and his wife,Susanne Hoeber Rudolph,for their services to literature and education,by bestowing on them the third highest civilian award,the Padma Bhushan.
Anarchism in Malaysia arose from the revolutionary activities of Chinese immigrants in British Malaya,who were the first to construct an organized anarchist movement in the country - reaching its peak during the 1920s. After a campaign of repression by the British authorities,anarchism was supplanted by Bolshevism as the leading revolutionary current,until the resurgence of the anarchist movement during the 1980s,as part of the Malaysian punk scene.
