TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yao,Souchou
TI  - The Malayan emergency: a small, distant war 
T2  - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph series
SN  - 9788776946517
AV  - DS597 
U1  - 959.5104 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Copenhagen
PB  - NIAS Press
KW  - Counterinsurgency
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Guerrilla warfare
KW  - Contre-rébellion
KW  - Malaisie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Guérilla
KW  - guerrilla warfare
KW  - aat
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Malaya
KW  - Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
KW  - Malaisie occidentale
KW  - 1948-1960 (État d'urgence)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index; On empire: a sleek and orderly retreat -- On communism: new person in a new era -- On violence: imperial policing and British counter-insurgency -- On revolutionary war: making peasants into revolutionaries -- On 'hearts and minds"-I: 'a warm and fuzzy war' -- On 'hearts and minds'-II: new villages and 'war by philanthropy' -- On the Malayan left: the MCP and the 'national question' -- On junglecraft: Britishness and the 'flaming East' -- On writing people's history: home-grown revolution
N2  - "One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. Souchou Yao tells its story in a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that range across a vast canvas. Throughout the book runs a passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women in colonial Malaya. Here, the effect of counterinsurgency measures are captured by the anthropologist's art of ethnography and cultural analysis. Among the vignettes are an ethnographic encounter with a woman ex-guerrilla, and the author's remembrance of his insurgent-cousin killed in a police ambush. As such, this fascinating study examines the Emergency afresh, and in the process brings into focus issues not normally covered in other accounts: nostalgia and failed revolution, socialist fantasy and ethnic relations, and the moral costs of modern counterinsurgency."
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