The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday July 12th, 2023
Emerging Malaysian Chinese self-identity by Murray Hunter
The Chinese have been part of life in Malaysia since the arrival of Kblai Khan in Borneo in 1292. This was around the time of Angkor, and at the beginning of the Majapahit Kingdom, which Kblai Khan played a major role in facilitating Raden Wijaya as first emperor. Only the Sultanate of Kedah was in existence at this time.
Over the next 900 years, various Chinese ethnic groups came over in waves into what is now called Malaysia today. Some Chinese families have hereditary roots going back further than some of the Melayu ethnic groups.
The forefathers of Malaysian Chinese played a major role in both the economic and social development of Malaysia. Chinese groups were positive about the formation of Malaya and later Malaysia, on the whole becoming good and loyal citizens.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (V2) #poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“Gravediggers uprooting caskets
with sharp, steel shovels-
each slicing step downward
through nerve-rooted earth
cooper pennies jingle in change
pouches dangling by their sides.”
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Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience by Rene Wadlow
Thoreau whose birth anniversary we mark on 12 July was not a systematic writer but rather one whose thoughts came in flashes of light in response to specific events. While his book Walden is the best known, it is his short essays that have had the most lasting impact, in particular “Civil Disobedience” and “A plea for Captain John Brown”. In these two essays, Thoreau places himself squarely in the tradition of radical protest with his faith grounded not in political theory but in the principled individual.
The occasion for “Civil Disobedience” was Thoreau’s imprisonment for refusal to pay a Massachusetts tax. In opposition to a government which had launched an aggressive war against Mexico, Thoreau chose to go to jail rather than to accept passively by paying for an injustice. The moral action is essentially revolutionary, cutting ties with the past. “Who can be serene” he asks “in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle?”
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Mika Toxica #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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