Pacific Affairs, December 22nd, 2002
COMET IN OUR SKY: Lim Chin Siong in History. Edited by Tan Jing Quee and Jomo K. S. Selangor Darul Ehsan (Malaysia): INSAN 2001. xxii, 170 pp. (B&W photos.) US$10.99, paper. ISBN 983-9602-14-4.
Comet in our Sky brings together a collection of twelve essays and memorials offering a multi-faceted view of the life and times of Lim Chin Siong, a charismatic left wing union leader and politician in 1950s and 60s Singapore, whose political career was first curtailed and then cut short by arrests and detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA). Divided into two sections, the volume opens with ...
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