Sim Chi Yin contrubutes the book The Rainforest Speaks: Reimagining the Malayan Emergency

This notebook, The Rainforest Speaks: Reimagining the Malayan Emergency, gathers writers, translators, filmmakers, artists, historians, and critics to revisit a significant period of Southeast Asian history—the Malayan Emergency. The writers featured in the book, edited by Min Ke (⺠客), attempt to recover this elusive past and address those not well-represented in the historical record, including the communist guerrilla fighters, rural Chinese Malayans, Indian plantation workers, the indigenous Orang Asli people, and the rainforest itself. Each piece in The Rainforest Speaks features art by Sim Chi Yin.

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October 15, 2023