Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
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Malaysia<br />
New New<br />
The End of Barisan Nasional?<br />
Malaysian Political Issues<br />
Kua Kia Soong<br />
These recent writings by Dr Kua Kia<br />
Soong reveal one stark reality, namely<br />
that the Barisan National coalition that<br />
has ruled Malaysia since Independence<br />
in 1957 seems incapable of reform. In<br />
its 54 year rule, it has destroyed many<br />
of the democratic institutions that<br />
existed at Independence in 1957. Other<br />
institutions such as Royal Commissions<br />
of Inquiry have been systematically debased. Malaysia<br />
was in fact freer at independence than it is today. In<br />
his unique polemical style, Kua applies his knowledge,<br />
training and experience over the years to a kaleidoscope<br />
of Malaysian political issues: democracy, freedoms,<br />
human rights, laws, police, detention without trial, racism,<br />
environment, arms spending, energy, politics, reform,<br />
and more. He urges Malaysians to think beyond the two<br />
front political systems toward a third political force that<br />
calls for democratic planning, direct action and popular<br />
participation on the reform of Malaysian society.<br />
Publisher: SUARAM<br />
<strong>2012</strong>: 200 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789671102107: RM25.00 / S$17.50<br />
New<br />
Hak Untuk Berbeza Pendapat<br />
Sebuah Lakaran Biografi Lim Kit Siang<br />
Ooi Kee Beng<br />
Lim Kit Siang telah berada di barisan<br />
hadapan politik Malaysia semenjak Parti<br />
Tindakan Demokratik didaftarkan pada<br />
1966. Walaupun telah ditahan tanpa<br />
bicara sebanyak dua kali – pada 1969<br />
dan 1987 - selama tiga tahun, beliau<br />
kekal sebagai tokoh politik utama yang<br />
berdiri teguh menentang corak politik<br />
berasaskan kaum yang diamalkan oleh<br />
gabungan parti pemerintah Negara. Keberanian dan<br />
keutuhan bekas wartawan ini dalam menjuarai demokrasi<br />
berparlimen dan nilai-nilai liberal berdepan dengan<br />
autoritarianisme telah membentuk lanskap politik Malaysia<br />
lebih mendalam daripada apa yang diandaikan selama ini.<br />
Lim Kit Siang tidak boleh diketepikan, dari dulu hingga<br />
sekarang. Walau apa pun, tidak banyak kisah ditulis<br />
tentang ahli politik yang tak lapuk dek hujan, tak lekang<br />
dek panas ini.<br />
Publisher: REFSA<br />
<strong>2012</strong>: 198 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789675942099: RM20.00 / S$14.00<br />
Tel: +603 - 7957 8342/8343 Fax: +603 - 7954 9202 E-mail: sird@streamyx.com<br />
Website: www.gerakbudaya.com & bookshop.gbgerakbudaya.com<br />
<strong>Catalogue</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Malaysian Chinese<br />
Recent Developments and Prospects<br />
Edited by Lee Hock Guan and Leo Suryadinata<br />
This collection of papers examines<br />
a variety of topics on the Chinese in<br />
Malaysia: the nature of Malaysian multiethnic<br />
society and the position of the<br />
ethnic Chinese, the conflation between<br />
ethnicity and religion, the 8 March 2008<br />
election and its impact on the Chinese<br />
positions in East and West Malaysia, the<br />
new developments in the economy, and<br />
the media and education in the past few decades under<br />
the New Economic Policy which have major bearings<br />
on the 8 March 2008 election and the post-election<br />
Malaysian Chinese community.<br />
Publisher: ISEAS<br />
<strong>2012</strong>: 205 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789814345088: RM88.00 / S$35.00<br />
New<br />
Patriots & Pretenders<br />
The Malayan Peoples’ Independence<br />
Struggle<br />
Kua Kia Soong<br />
Patriots & Pretenders is the peoples’<br />
history of the Malayan Independence<br />
struggle, which challenges the ‘official’<br />
version of how ‘Merdeka’ was won.<br />
Following on from his 2007 best-selling<br />
May 13: Declassified Documents on<br />
the Malaysian Riots of 1969, Dr Kua<br />
Kia Soong here attempts to put the<br />
record straight on another important<br />
episode in Malaysian history. As in<br />
May 13, he has scoured documents from the British<br />
Archives which reveal the thinking behind British colonial<br />
strategy during the Emergency, especially for post-colonial<br />
Malaya. These documents also reveal the efforts of the<br />
British High Commissioner at the time, in the formation of<br />
the Alliance.<br />
While this country remains stuck in a racialist rut after<br />
54 years on Independence, Patriots & Pretenders calls on<br />
Malaysian to break through to a people-centred non-racial<br />
agenda for change. From the lessons of the past, Kua<br />
outlines some pointers to the future which could form<br />
the Malaysian peoples’ demands for the next general<br />
elections.<br />
Publisher: SUARAM<br />
2011: 159 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789834407940: RM28.00 / S$19.60