This article first appeared in our December 2009 issue.In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we put together for you in this issue some of our most memorable articles.Ooi Kee Beng takes advice from Tun Lim Chong Eu about the powerful relevance of the past on the future. However, he realises that Tun Lim’s own life does tell us that we are not always prisoners of days gone by.One easy way of approaching the history of a country is to study...
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is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.