Francis Loh and Tan Teng Phee remember their fieldwork on the “new villages” of Malaysia.
Loh went to the Kinta Valley in the late 1970s, when the residents were still fearful of speaking about their resettlement.
Thirty years later, Tan visited about 150 Chinese new villages, from which he focused on four case studies. He found both men and women more willing to relate their stories.
Loh and Tan recount some findings from their New Villages research, and how the research has become more sophisticated over three decades.
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They discuss current efforts by Icomos Malaysia to document the new villages as part of Malaysia’s heritage and get it recognised as a Unesco world heritage.
Loh and Tan also talk about their respective work outside academia as a scholar activist and a public historian.
Produced by: The Scholar Chronicles
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