Malaysian Moments

Malaysian Moments is a pictorial retrospective that seeks to link contemporary Malaysia to its historic past, exploring the often complex background and curious parentage of individual episodes of national life — all of which have contributed towards making such a rich and vital nation, now celebrating its 60th Jubilee.

Contents

1. THE RUBBER REVOLUTION: The first rubber trees to arrive in Malaya were the of an international conspiracy, involving agents Working for the British Crown.
2. THE EXPATRIATE IN MALAYSIA: A LITERARY GENRE — Fauconnet to Maugham to Anthony Burgess — a literary genre uncovered.
3. NEGARAKU: MALAYSIA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM — The curious parentage and history of Malaysia’s National Anthem
4. MALAYSIA: THE RISE AND FALL OF KING TIN — Tin fever and how it transformed Malaya.
5. MALAYSIA’S HILL-STATIONS — Malaysia has the world’s first (Penang Hill) and the (Genting Highlands) hill stations — a social history.
   The Scottish Connection
6. ICED SHIPS, TINNED-KIPPERS, COLD STORAGE AND AIS KACANG — Ice-Ships, Tinned-Kippers, Cold Storage and Ais Kacang — how ice transformed life in the tropics.
7. THE LONGEST WAR: THE STORY OF JAPANESE RECRUITS TO THE MALAYAN COMMUNISTS — The peculiar history of the Japanese soldiers who invaded Malaya in 1941, joined the Communists and were eventually repatriated to japan in 1992.
8. A RETREAT TO THE JUNGLE — The role of the jungle in influencing War; resistance and social defence during the War and the Emergency that followed.
9. MALAYA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE EMERGENCY: THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE — The impact of intelligence on conflict Lai Teck — Master Spy
10. THE 1906 S\VE’ITENHAM MAP OF MALAYA: A CENTENNIAL SNAP SHOT — Malaya on the cusp of its national development, as seen through the centennial 1906 Swettenham map. Carcosa — A Colonial Gem