Cheah Boon Kheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 742295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheah Boon Kheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheah Boon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kheng |
| SIGNATURE | KHENG C B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feudalisme Melayu
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 97, Part 1, No. 326, June 2024
Raja Bongsu and the Sejarah Melayu
The Sejarah Melayu , or Malay Annals, is arguable the most important piece of historical literature produced in or around the Malay Peninsula. Several manuscripts, some with significant variations, exist in archival collections. The identity of the author is an open question, and individuals tentatively identified as the author were apparently copyists, although some of them added or deleted material. The following article assesses the authorship…
Memoir of R. Balan, Vice-President of the Malayan Communist Party
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 88, Part 2, No. 309, December 2015
The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929
Ming China's Support for Sultan Mahmud of Melaka and Its Hostility towards the Portuguese after the Fall of Melaka in 1511
In the sixteenth century Ming China, having learnt that the Portuguese were still occupying their 'protectorate' of Melaka and that Portuguese merchant pirates were pillaging China's coast, banned trade with Portugal and imprisoned all their officials in China, including their ambassador. In this paper I have compiled the evidence from the records of the Ming dynasty and the various Portuguese accounts to show how the Ming policy of support for t…
The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History (review)
Reviewed by: The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History Cheah Boon Kheng The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History Loh Kah Seng and Liew Khai Khiun (eds) Singapore: Ethos Books and the Singapore Heritage Society, 2010. 347 pp., biblio., index. ISBN: 978-981-08-6357-9, S$42. This collection of 23 papers is a bold attempt to unlock the gates on official and alternative archival sources and the impediments to independent research on Singapore's h…
Malaysia
This is an account of the contest between Malay ethno-nationalism and Malaysian nationalism in the making of the Malaysian nation. In spite of Malay dominance in Malaysia, the author argues, the country has not become a "Malay nation-state". This process has been checked by the rival forces of multi-ethnic "Malaysian nationalism" in peninsular Malaysia and the contesting nationalisms and communalism of the other indigenous communities, or bumiput…
Dr R. Suntharalingam (18 October 1936 – 21 June 1998)
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies which succeeded it in 1970. He edited the first issue of the new journal, and served as Chairman of the Editorial Board for the first three years of its existence, while he was Acting Head of the History Department
Feudalism in Pre-Colonial Malaya
Colonial discourse analysis has proven one of the most fruitful and significant areas of research in recent years. This paper considers the orientalist discourse and its context in the case of pre-colonial Malaya. It discusses the concept of “feudalism” as employed by historians of western Europe, by those of precolonial Malaya and, thirdly, by selected post-colonial writers. In discussing the works of Clifford, Maxwell and other nineteenth-centu…
From PKI to the Comintern, 1924-1941
From PKI to the Comintern, 1924–1941
A compilation of selected documents that provide rare glimpses into the development, thought, and policies of the early Malaysian Communist Party (MCP)
The Erosion of Ideological Hegemony and Royal Power and the Rise of Postwar Malay Nationalism, 1945–46
The French Annales historians have made the study of popular mentalites into a fascinating and important field of historical research. This approach has yet to gain ground in Southeast Asian historical studies, especially in Malaysian history, with respect to the thinking of subject classes. If we take the Malay traditional ruling class and the Malay peasantry in Melaka and other states from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, we know very l…
Hobsbawm's social banditry, myth and historical reality
Social bandits like Robin Hood who rob from the rich to give to the poor are a universally familiar type of folk hero belonging to remembered history as distinct from the official history of books. Bandit myths have an appeal wider than their native environments and have the power to move us even today. Why do people, or at least some kinds of people, perpetuate mythical stories about bandits? Ironically, in many instances the historical bandits …
Red Star Over Malaya. Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-1946
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial conflicts between Malays and Chinese during the final stages and the aftermath of the Japanese occupation. As Japanese forces retreated into the big cities, the Chinese guerrillas of the communist-led resistance movement, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), emerged from the jungle and took control of some 70 per cent of the country's smaller towns and villages. The ensuing confli…
Sino-Malay Conflicts in Malaya, 1945–1946
The Japanese occupation (1941–45) in Malaya enabled the predominantly Chinese Malayan Communist Party (MCP) to increase its political influence during and after the war. As it was the only effective political organization actively engaged in anti-Japanese insurgency, it attracted widespread support among the Chinese who suffered greatly from the hostility of the Japanese. The MCP succeeded, therefore, in establishing a strong politico-military re…
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-45
Some Aspects of the Interregnum in Malaya (14 August–3 September 1945)
Following Japan's announcement of unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers on 14 August 1945, almost three crucial weeks elapsed in Malaya before the landing of the British Royal Marines at Penang on 3 September. A day before the Marines landed, Vice-Admiral Walker had arrived off Penang aboard H.M.S. Nelson, and received the surrender of the local Japanese commanders. What happened in Malaya during the Interregnum still awaits a comprehensiv…
Sino-Malay Conflicts in Malaya, 1945–1946
The Japanese occupation (1941–45) in Malaya enabled the predominantly Chinese Malayan Communist Party (MCP) to increase its political influence during and after the war. As it was the only effective political organization actively engaged in anti-Japanese insurgency, it attracted widespread support among the Chinese who suffered greatly from the hostility of the Japanese. The MCP succeeded, therefore, in establishing a strong politico-military re…
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-45
The Erosion of Ideological Hegemony and Royal Power and the Rise of Postwar Malay Nationalism, 1945–46
The French Annales historians have made the study of popular mentalites into a fascinating and important field of historical research. This approach has yet to gain ground in Southeast Asian historical studies, especially in Malaysian history, with respect to the thinking of subject classes. If we take the Malay traditional ruling class and the Malay peasantry in Melaka and other states from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, we know very l…
Hobsbawm's social banditry, myth and historical reality
Social bandits like Robin Hood who rob from the rich to give to the poor are a universally familiar type of folk hero belonging to remembered history as distinct from the official history of books. Bandit myths have an appeal wider than their native environments and have the power to move us even today. Why do people, or at least some kinds of people, perpetuate mythical stories about bandits? Ironically, in many instances the historical bandits …
Some Aspects of the Interregnum in Malaya (14 August–3 September 1945)
Following Japan's announcement of unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers on 14 August 1945, almost three crucial weeks elapsed in Malaya before the landing of the British Royal Marines at Penang on 3 September. A day before the Marines landed, Vice-Admiral Walker had arrived off Penang aboard H.M.S. Nelson, and received the surrender of the local Japanese commanders. What happened in Malaya during the Interregnum still awaits a comprehensiv…
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-45
Sino-Malay Conflicts in Malaya, 1945–1946
The Japanese occupation (1941–45) in Malaya enabled the predominantly Chinese Malayan Communist Party (MCP) to increase its political influence during and after the war. As it was the only effective political organization actively engaged in anti-Japanese insurgency, it attracted widespread support among the Chinese who suffered greatly from the hostility of the Japanese. The MCP succeeded, therefore, in establishing a strong politico-military re…
Red Star Over Malaya. Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-1946
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial conflicts between Malays and Chinese during the final stages and the aftermath of the Japanese occupation. As Japanese forces retreated into the big cities, the Chinese guerrillas of the communist-led resistance movement, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), emerged from the jungle and took control of some 70 per cent of the country's smaller towns and villages. The ensuing confli…
Hobsbawm's social banditry, myth and historical reality
Social bandits like Robin Hood who rob from the rich to give to the poor are a universally familiar type of folk hero belonging to remembered history as distinct from the official history of books. Bandit myths have an appeal wider than their native environments and have the power to move us even today. Why do people, or at least some kinds of people, perpetuate mythical stories about bandits? Ironically, in many instances the historical bandits …
The Erosion of Ideological Hegemony and Royal Power and the Rise of Postwar Malay Nationalism, 1945–46
The French Annales historians have made the study of popular mentalites into a fascinating and important field of historical research. This approach has yet to gain ground in Southeast Asian historical studies, especially in Malaysian history, with respect to the thinking of subject classes. If we take the Malay traditional ruling class and the Malay peasantry in Melaka and other states from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, we know very l…
From PKI to the Comintern, 1924–1941
A compilation of selected documents that provide rare glimpses into the development, thought, and policies of the early Malaysian Communist Party (MCP)
From PKI to the Comintern, 1924-1941
Feudalism in Pre-Colonial Malaya
Colonial discourse analysis has proven one of the most fruitful and significant areas of research in recent years. This paper considers the orientalist discourse and its context in the case of pre-colonial Malaya. It discusses the concept of “feudalism” as employed by historians of western Europe, by those of precolonial Malaya and, thirdly, by selected post-colonial writers. In discussing the works of Clifford, Maxwell and other nineteenth-centu…
Dr R. Suntharalingam (18 October 1936 – 21 June 1998)
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies which succeeded it in 1970. He edited the first issue of the new journal, and served as Chairman of the Editorial Board for the first three years of its existence, while he was Acting Head of the History Department
Malaysia
This is an account of the contest between Malay ethno-nationalism and Malaysian nationalism in the making of the Malaysian nation. In spite of Malay dominance in Malaysia, the author argues, the country has not become a "Malay nation-state". This process has been checked by the rival forces of multi-ethnic "Malaysian nationalism" in peninsular Malaysia and the contesting nationalisms and communalism of the other indigenous communities, or bumiput…
The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History (review)
Reviewed by: The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History Cheah Boon Kheng The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History Loh Kah Seng and Liew Khai Khiun (eds) Singapore: Ethos Books and the Singapore Heritage Society, 2010. 347 pp., biblio., index. ISBN: 978-981-08-6357-9, S$42. This collection of 23 papers is a bold attempt to unlock the gates on official and alternative archival sources and the impediments to independent research on Singapore's h…
Ming China's Support for Sultan Mahmud of Melaka and Its Hostility towards the Portuguese after the Fall of Melaka in 1511
In the sixteenth century Ming China, having learnt that the Portuguese were still occupying their 'protectorate' of Melaka and that Portuguese merchant pirates were pillaging China's coast, banned trade with Portugal and imprisoned all their officials in China, including their ambassador. In this paper I have compiled the evidence from the records of the Ming dynasty and the various Portuguese accounts to show how the Ming policy of support for t…
The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929
Memoir of R. Balan, Vice-President of the Malayan Communist Party
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 88, Part 2, No. 309, December 2015
Raja Bongsu and the Sejarah Melayu
The Sejarah Melayu , or Malay Annals, is arguable the most important piece of historical literature produced in or around the Malay Peninsula. Several manuscripts, some with significant variations, exist in archival collections. The identity of the author is an open question, and individuals tentatively identified as the author were apparently copyists, although some of them added or deleted material. The following article assesses the authorship…
Feudalisme Melayu
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 97, Part 1, No. 326, June 2024
Asian Studies and History (14 works) · History (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Malay (4 works)