作者在研究陈嘉庚人物传记时发现许多二战前新马激进政治运动萌芽时期的中英文资料，进而对马来亚共产党的起源进行研究... ...
While researching into the Tan Kah Kee project, the author unearthed a good amount of source-materials on the radical political movement in pre-war Singapore and Malaya. This triggered off his interest in the study of the present work. ... ...

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