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Origins and Development of the Malayan Communist Movement, 1919–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

C. F. Yong
C. F. Yong
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Flinders University of South Australia
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Communism as an ideology was first introduced to Malaya by Chinese anarchists, and not by Kuomintang Left, Indonesian communists or Chinese communists as claimed in existing scholarship.1 A handful of Chinese anarchists arrived in British Malaya during the First World War to take up positions as Chinese vernacular school teachers or journalists. These Chinese intellectuals harboured not only anarchism but also communism, commonly known then as anarcho-communism.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1991 , pp. 625 - 648
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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