Kee Beng Ooi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kee Beng Ooi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kee Beng |
| FAMILY NAME | Ooi |
| SIGNATURE | OOI K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ateneo de Manila University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7589-860X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Malaysia’s 14th general election (GE14) on 9 May ended the world’s then longest one-party rule with regular elections, and is undoubtedly a bright spot in the chronicle of 2018, a year during which
The 3rd Asean Reader
Over the past two decades, ISEAS has compiled abridged articles that analyse key aspects of Southeast Asia’s development and the ASEAN process. The ASEAN Reader was published in 1992 just as the Cold War ended, while The Second ASEAN Reader came in 2003 in the wake of the 1997 Asian crisis and the September 11 attacks in 2001. The past decade has not been spared its share of intense changes, with the rise of China and India bringing new challenge…
Rd Asean Reader
March 8
For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible.But then came March 8, 2008 The surprising results of the General Election on that special day have started eclipsing the fears linked for so long to that spectral night forty years ago. All the three researchers from ISEAS who each authored separate chapters for this book were in different parts of Malaysia monitoring its …
The Reluctant Politician
This is the long-awaited biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away of a heart attack on 2 August 1973. It is based on his private papers and on numerous interviews with his relatives and with people who knew him well, including Ghafar Baba, Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Robert Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew and Ghazalie Shafie. New perspectives are provided about the st…
Malaysia
The ethnic diversity in Malaysia makes politics an endless balancing act that is reflected in the public sphere as an endless series of controversies and crises. This was certainly true of 2006, Abdullah Badawi's third year as prime minister. The long-term effects of Mahathir's 22 years in power had by now become more and more undeniable, and put to the test the ability of his successor to control the excesses of that period. The constitutional r…
Revisiting Two Classics
It is true that history is largely based on textual accounts of past events. Non-textual material such as archaeological artefacts can speak only through intervention and interpretation from a latter-day agent. But to be sure, it is also the fate of texts to remain relatively silent until a latter-day agent intervenes. And from that point onwards, they go through a transformation that turns them into the raw material of historical description. Wh…
Mahathir as Muslim Leader
Introduction
Malaysia’s 14th general election (GE14) on 9 May ended the world’s then longest one-party rule with regular elections, and is undoubtedly a bright spot in the chronicle of 2018, a year during which
Mahathir as Muslim Leader
The Reluctant Politician
This is the long-awaited biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away of a heart attack on 2 August 1973. It is based on his private papers and on numerous interviews with his relatives and with people who knew him well, including Ghafar Baba, Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Robert Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew and Ghazalie Shafie. New perspectives are provided about the st…
Malaysia
The ethnic diversity in Malaysia makes politics an endless balancing act that is reflected in the public sphere as an endless series of controversies and crises. This was certainly true of 2006, Abdullah Badawi's third year as prime minister. The long-term effects of Mahathir's 22 years in power had by now become more and more undeniable, and put to the test the ability of his successor to control the excesses of that period. The constitutional r…
Revisiting Two Classics
It is true that history is largely based on textual accounts of past events. Non-textual material such as archaeological artefacts can speak only through intervention and interpretation from a latter-day agent. But to be sure, it is also the fate of texts to remain relatively silent until a latter-day agent intervenes. And from that point onwards, they go through a transformation that turns them into the raw material of historical description. Wh…
March 8
For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible.But then came March 8, 2008 The surprising results of the General Election on that special day have started eclipsing the fears linked for so long to that spectral night forty years ago. All the three researchers from ISEAS who each authored separate chapters for this book were in different parts of Malaysia monitoring its …
The 3rd Asean Reader
Over the past two decades, ISEAS has compiled abridged articles that analyse key aspects of Southeast Asia’s development and the ASEAN process. The ASEAN Reader was published in 1992 just as the Cold War ended, while The Second ASEAN Reader came in 2003 in the wake of the 1997 Asian crisis and the September 11 attacks in 2001. The past decade has not been spared its share of intense changes, with the rise of China and India bringing new challenge…
Rd Asean Reader
Introduction
Malaysia’s 14th general election (GE14) on 9 May ended the world’s then longest one-party rule with regular elections, and is undoubtedly a bright spot in the chronicle of 2018, a year during which
Political science (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · asia (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · politics and government (3 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (2 works) · Malaysia (2 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (2 works)