Sifu: An Unusual Teacher in the Turbulence of the Malayan War

Death was an old companion for him.

He grew up in uncertain and violent times. Even with the return of the British after the Japanese Occupation, a peaceful life was still non-existent in post-war Malaya. He was forced to join his family in suffering an uprooting from his home to a barbed-wire New Village as a government's strategy to contain a communist insurgency.