Jews' contribution to Southeast Asian Studies

Like world-renowned Cambridge historians Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper who specialise in the studies of the history of the now defunct British Empire in Asia, Michael Leifer also factually recorded in the all the editions of Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia " that the most well-known veteran of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) Chin Peng "was born in Malaya". (1995, p. 82; 2001, p.87)
Professor Michael Leifer (1933-2001), a fair-minded and no-nonsense British scholar (of Jewish origin) of Southeast Asian studies, always articulated very thoughtfully and discoursed with accurate as well as dispassionate language on emotional and difficult subjects like past wars and other types of conflicts in the region, including Malaysia and Singapore. Like Professor Herb Feith (1930-2001), Dr. Leifer's books, monographs and articles have certainly and significantly contributed to my foundational as well as factual understanding of Southeast Asia and its modern politics at the domestic, regional and global levels.
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