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It's doubtful there will never be a reliable source for Liu Shan Bang as a historical figure
- perhaps the description needs to be worded differently?
From: On memory construction and fictionalization
NGOI Guat Peng (Translated by SHOW Ying Xin)
"In postcolonial experiences where daily memories are connected with local discourse, the imagination and building of “heroic” characters has been a common practice, as memories become the crucial agency with which identity is confirmed. For example, in Sarawak, there is a gold-mining town called Bau (Shi long men) where Chinese settlers worked as miners during the British colonial period under the rule of James Brooke. The Chinese workers were exploited by the British gold-mining company, and an uprising finally broke out. During that time, a person named Liu Shan Bang was characterized as an “anti-colonial hero” in the stories passed down by locals as part of their memories. He was even deified as a guardian-like god in the area of Siniawan. It is not uncommon in many places that human characters are deified as god, but in Siniawan, such transformation further involves the resistance to colonial history and people’s psychological need of an anti-colonial hero. Liu Shan Bang’s images, fused by people’s memories passed down as local folklores, differ entirely from those obtained by historians through analyzing colonial archive or historical documents. For the latter, Liu Shan Bang is merely a fictional character constructed by memories." MatSallehSesat (talk) 08:17, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
