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93. C. F. Yong, Tan Kah-Kee: the making of an overseas Chinese legend (Singapore, 1989), pp. 328–31. See also enclosures on FO371/84480, TNA.
94. Chui Kwei-chiang, The response of the Malayan Chinese to political and military developments in China, 1945–9 (Singapore, 1977), pp. 82–4.
95. McHugh, Anatomy of communist propaganda, p. 20.
96. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 215–16.
97. Harper, The end of empire, pp. 203–4.
98. Chin and Hack, Dialogues with Chin Peng, p. 162.
99. Gurney to Creech Jones, 28 February 1949, CO537/4750, TNA.
100. Tan Cheng Lock, One country, one people, one government: Presidential address by Tan Cheng Lock at a meeting of the General Committee of the MCA held in Penang on 30 October, 1949 (Kuala Lumpur, 1949), p. 2.
101. K. G. Tregonning, ‘Tan Cheng Lock: a Malayan nationalist’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 10, 1 (1979), pp. 60–61.
102. Tan Liok Ee, The politics of Chinese education in Malaya, 1945–1961 (Kuala Lumpur 1997), pp. 104–5.
103. Gurney to J. D. Higham, 10 February 1949, CO/537/4242; Pan-Malayan Review of Political Intelligence, no. 5 of 1959, CO537/4671, TNA.
104. ‘Minutes of the Second Meeting of the Emergency Chinese Advisory Committee held at the Perak State Council Chamber, Ipoh on 11 June 1949’, SP13/A/21, ANM.
105. ‘Malayan Chinese Association’, PR/261/51, ANM.
106. ‘Minutes of the First Meeting of the Emergency Chinese Advisory Committee held at the Council Chamber, Kuala Lumpur on 5 April 1949’, SP13/A/21, ANM.
107. Heng Pek Koon, Chinese politics in Malaysia: a history of the Malaysian Chinese Association (Singapore, 1988), p. 89.
108. Gurney to Paskin, 4 April 1949, CO537/4761, TNA.
109. Monthly Review of Chinese Affairs, April 1949; Pan-Malayan Review of Political Intelligence, no. 11 of 1949, CO537/4671, TNA.
110. Khoo Salma Nusution and Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Kinta Valley: pioneering Malaysia’s modern development (Ipoh, 2005), p. 308; McHugh, Anatomy of communist propaganda, p. 48.
111. Laurence K. L. Siaw, Chinese society in rural Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, 1983), pp. 93–103.
112. Tan Cheng Lock to Mentri Besar, Johore, 30 October 1951, CO1022/27, TNA.
113. The literature on resettlement is extensive. The key studies are, K. S. Sandhu, ‘Emergency resettlement in Malaya’, Journal of Tropical Geography, 18 (1964), pp. 157–83; ‘The saga of the “squatter” in Malaya: a preliminary survey of the causes, characteristics and consequences of the resettlement of rural dwellers during the Emergency between 1948 and 1960’, Journal of Southeast Asian History, 5 (1964), pp. 143–77; J. W. Humphrey, ‘Population resetlement in Malaya’ (PhD thesis, Northwestern University, 1971); Francis Loh Kok Wah, Beyond the tin mines: coolies, squatters and new villagers in the Kinta valley, c. 1880–1980 (Singapore, 1988). For a summary of the impact see Harper, The end of empire, pp. 176–92.
114. Keris Mas (trans. Harry Aveling), ‘A row of shophouses in our village’, in Blood and tears (Petaling Jaya, 1984), pp. 113–14.
115. Judith Strauch, ‘Chinese new Villages of the Malayan Emergency, a generation later: a case study’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 2 (1981), pp. 126–39; Siaw, Chinese society in rural Malaysia, pp. 108–16.
116. Protector of Aborigines to Asst Superintendent of Census, 9 May 1947, DO Temerloh/467/46, ANM.
117. For a fuller account, see Christopher Bayly, and Tim Harper, Forgotten armies: Britain’s Asian empire and the war with Japan (London, 2004), pp. 267–8, 348–50.
118. Tony Gould, Imperial warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas (London, 1999), p. 329–30.
119. For the search for Noone, see his brother’s account, Richard Noone, Rape of the dream people (London, 1972).
120. Reported in Malay Mail, 15 July 1949.
121. Malay Mail, 22 August 1949; for a discussion see John Leary, Violence and the dream people: the Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960 (Athens, OH, 1995), pp. 74–83.
122. Robert Knox Dentan, ‘Bad day at Bukit Pekan’, American Anthropologist, 97, 2 (1995), pp. 225–31.
123. Ivan Polunin, ‘The medical natural