Francis Cooray and Khoo Salma Nasution, redoubtable reformer: the life and times of Cheah Cheang Lim. Penang: Areca Books, 2015. 225+xvii pages. ISBN 978-967-5719-20-2
A biography may be defined as “our non-fictional output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives” (Hamilton 1). Biographies generally range along a continuum from scholarly to popular to super-pop. Redoubtable Reformer: The Life and Times of Cheah Cheang Lim is a biography with a differenc...
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IIUM Press
2015
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| 在線閱讀: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/47206/1/Book_Review._Asiatic._Dec._2015.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/47206/ http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/670/593 |
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| 總結: | A biography may be defined as “our non-fictional output devoted to
recording and interpreting real lives” (Hamilton 1). Biographies generally range along a continuum from scholarly to popular to super-pop. Redoubtable Reformer:
The Life and Times of Cheah Cheang Lim is a biography with a difference. It does not fall into any of the categories of biography just mentioned. It is neither a scholarly nor a popular biography. Rather it is the story of, as the title suggests,of an awesome reformer living in Federated Malaya. |
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