The Malayan vision of Lim Chin Siong: unity, non-violence, and popular sovereignty.
Lim Chin Siong was the undisputed political leader of the anticolonial and Malayan left-wing in Singapore until his detention without trial in 1963 ended his political career. That he had a major impact on Singapore’s decolonisation is beyond dispute – indeed, both Tunku Abdul Rahman and Lee Kuan Ye...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 391 - 414 |
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