Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2

Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2

A biography may be defined as “our non-fictional output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives” (Hamilton 1). Biographies generally range along a continuum from scholarly to popular to super-pop. Redoubtable Reformer: The Life and Times of Cheah Cheang Lim is a biography with a differenc...

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Main Author: Hossain, Ishtiaq
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Language:English
Published: IIUM Press 2015
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JQ Political institutions Asia
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/47206/
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spelling iium-472062016-07-19T07:48:07Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47206/ Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2 Hossain, Ishtiaq JQ Political institutions Asia A biography may be defined as “our non-fictional output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives” (Hamilton 1). Biographies generally range along a continuum from scholarly to popular to super-pop. Redoubtable Reformer: The Life and Times of Cheah Cheang Lim is a biography with a difference. It does not fall into any of the categories of biography just mentioned. It is neither a scholarly nor a popular biography. Rather it is the story of, as the title suggests,of an awesome reformer living in Federated Malaya. IIUM Press 2015-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47206/1/Book_Review._Asiatic._Dec._2015.pdf Hossain, Ishtiaq (2015) Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2. Asiatic, 9 (2). pp. 256-259. ISSN 1985-3106 http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/670/593
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Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2
description A biography may be defined as “our non-fictional output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives” (Hamilton 1). Biographies generally range along a continuum from scholarly to popular to super-pop. Redoubtable Reformer: The Life and Times of Cheah Cheang Lim is a biography with a difference. It does not fall into any of the categories of biography just mentioned. It is neither a scholarly nor a popular biography. Rather it is the story of, as the title suggests,of an awesome reformer living in Federated Malaya.
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title Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2
title_short Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2
title_full Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2
title_fullStr Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2
title_full_unstemmed Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2
title_sort francis cooray and khoo salma nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of cheah cheang lim. penang: areca books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. isbn 978-967-5719-20-2
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