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Tan Cheng Lock His Leadership of the Malayan Chinese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Soh Eng Lim
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Dato Sir (now Tun) Cheng-lock Tan is best known today for his. leadership of the Malayan Chinese after the Second World War, in connection with the Federation of Malaya constitutional proposals, the Emergency, and the attainment of independence by Malaya. Even before the War, however, Dato Tan had established himself as a distinguished public figure and, in a sense, as a political leader.

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Journal of Southeast Asian History , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1960 , pp. 29 - 55
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1960

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