Francis Loh recounts how his school days at St Xavier’s Institution in Penang and undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in the US shaped his thinking, as did the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
He decided to do his PhD on “new villages” in Cornell University’s famed Southeast Asian studies programme, under the supervision of George Kahin and Ben Anderson. (Francis’ doctoral research and scholar activism will be covered in subsequent episodes.)
00:00 Introduction
02:30 St Xavier’s Institution
07:19 Dartmouth College
16:42 Going to Cornell
22:00 Dissertation on the new villages
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30:58 George Kahin and Ben Anderson
00:00 Fieldwork & Ethnography
08:29 My Contemporaries at Cornell
12:45 Lee Poh Ping
19:17 Comparative Study
24:14 Studying Politics from the Side
Francis Loh was interviewed by Dr KS Loh, a historian in Singapore.
Bibliography
- Francis Loh Kok Wah, Beyond the Tin Mines: Coolies, Squatters, and New Villagers in the Kinta Valley, Malaysia, c1880s -1980s, 1988
- Francis Loh Kok Wah, Old vs New Politics in Malaysia: State and Society in Transition, 2009
- Francis Loh Kok Wah, NGOs and Social Movements in Southeast Asia, Pluto Press eBooks, 2017
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