By Syed Hussein Alatas - The Myth of the Lazy Native: A Study of the Image of the Malays, (1977-02-05) [Paperback]

by Syed Hussein Alatas

Paperback

About the author

Syed Hussein Alatas (September 17, 1928 – January 23, 2007) was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organizations, and former politician. He was once Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s, and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and post colonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.

Reviews

[Cj Millar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Syed Hussein Alatas was very clearly supremely intelligent, and it shows in his writing.

Anybody interested in the damage done by colonialism in SE Asia needs to read this book.