Dr. Souchou Yao, Author
06-Sep-16 16:00
One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. We speak to Dr. Souchou Yao, who has written a collection of essays about the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women in colonial Malaya - nostalgia and failed revolution, socialist fantasy and ethnic relations, and the moral costs of modern counterinsurgency.