Biographical Notes on Contributors
- Biographical Notes on Contributors
Leon Comber is a Research Fellow (Adjunct) at Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, specialising in Singapore/Malaysia. His languages are Malay, Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua), with some Hindi. He was a senior officer in the Malayan Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency (1948–60). His most recent books are Malaya's Secret Police 1945–60. The Role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency (ISEAS & Monash University Press, 2nd printing 2009), Through the Bamboo Window. Chinese Life and Customs in 1950s Malaya & Singapore (Singapore Heritage Society/Talisman Publishing Pte Ltd, 2009) and The Triads. Chinese Secret Societies in 1950s Malaya & Singapore (Singapore Heritage Society/Talisman Publishing Pte Ltd, 2009).
J. M. Gullick, on retiring from the Malayan Civil Service (1945–57), pursued a legal and business career in London. He is the author of some 80 books and articles on Malayan history, and is the most prolific post-war contributor to this Journal.
Zuraini Md Ali has a BSc in Architectural Studies from the School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA and an MSc in Construction (Risk) Management from Glasgow Caledonian University. A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Building Surveying, Faculty of the Built Environment, University Malaya, Zuraini is studying for her PhD at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Her special area of interest is architectural and heritage building conservation.
Peter Borschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. He has published widely on the history of the Singapore and Melaka Straits in the early modern period as well as on trade and diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Johor, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Portuguese Melaka in the first half of the seventeenth century. [End Page 128]
