Alias Chin Peng: My Side of History
Autobiography Southeast Asian History Cold War History Post-Colonial Studies Political Memoir Guerrilla Warfare Decolonization
Alias Chin Peng: My Side of History is the only authorised autobiography of the legendary Malayan Communist Party leader whose guerrilla war against British colonial rule kept Southeast Asia on the front pages of the 1950s. First issued in 2003, this hardcover study-guide edition (ISBN 9789810486938) gives collectors and researchers the complete, uncensored Malay Peninsula narrative that British intelligence files once tried to suppress. From his birth in 1920s Perak to the 1989 peace accord that finally laid down arms, Chin Peng recounts jungle campaigns, secret negotiations with Tunku Abdul Rahman, and the ideological debates that shaped post-war decolonisation. Historians now regard the book as an indispensable primary source for Cold-War Southeast-Asian studies, yet its clean, first-person prose still reads like a fast-paced political thriller.
What makes this particular copy especially desirable is the signed cover page—verified handwriting from the guerrilla commander himself—paired with the durable hardcover binding that has protected the interior for two decades. Only light shelf evidence (a single cover crease) interrupts an otherwise crisp, unmarked text: no dog-eared pages, no underlining, no sun-fading. Students writing on anti-colonial resistance, collectors of modern Asian history, or anyone fascinated by untold sides of the Emergency period will find this copy both a scholarly tool and a conversation-starting artifact. Secure this low-print-run memoir now, before remaining signed first editions disappear into institutional archives.
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