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Linda L. Viney, 1942-2014, Deborah Truneckova
Linda L. Viney, 1942-2014, Deborah Truneckova
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Highly educated, intelligent, and cultured-but also ambitious and hardworking-LindaViney had a remarkable five-decade career in psychology. Her career was formed from her highly developed intellectual talent for absorbing and creating knowledge and her ambitious, diligent, and industrious approach to research. Friends describe not only her intellect and creative ideas but her warmth and sense of humor. Linda had the unique quality of being able to connect with people outside academia in a way that made them feel special and unique. She was ambitious academically, but personally humble, generous, and kind.
The Legendary Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Army In The Defence Of Singapore During The Japanese Invasion Of February 1942, Jung Kwok
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Known as the Overseas Anti-Japanese Army by the Chinese in Singapore but officially as Dalforce by the British, this was a Chinese militia unit formed to defend Singapore Island during the Japanese invasion in 1942. Its unit history written by its deputy commander Major Hu Tie Jun suggests that the Overseas Anti-Japanese Army was a heroic and patriotic army. The legendary exploits of the Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Army has since been picked up by Singaporean journalist writer Foong Choon Hon and made into a popular wartime narrative in Singapore in his best seller war narrative The Price of Peace. Since …