Author: YONG, P.M.H.,
Title: A Dream of Freedom. The Early Sarawak Chines. Orig. edn.
Description: Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk, 1991. Square 8°, original coloured and partly illustrated glossy boards. 131pp. Many sepia-tinted illustrations in text and full-page, being facsims. after old photographs and drawings, some facsim. sketch-maps in text, portraits on plates and one in colour, biography with portrait to author, table of Sarawak State Cabinet 1987, indicating percentage of ministers of Chinese descent with an additional full-page note on facing page and their portraits on 2pp., footnotes, references, acknowledgements, table of contents. Describes chinese cultural tradition, the search of a New Life [in Sarawak], mining pioneers of Kalimantan, settling in Sarawak, the Twelve Kongsi, the Revolt, the chinese in National life to-day, including a major chronology of Periods and aSarawak chronology. Fine copy.

Keywords: sarawak chinese history emancipation community social order history culture heritage politics kongsi kalimantan mining sarawak borneo history malaysia colonialism southeast asia