{"product_id":"sang-kancil","title":"Sang Kancil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Chai\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e9789815127133\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrdinary is not as ordinary as you think. History is written by the loudest and most charismatic victors, but are silent about the true movers and shakers: the rebels, the honest servants, the quiet doers, the square pegs in a round hole, and the ordinary believers who kept showing up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough seven moving tales of courage, prolific Malaysian writer, James Chai, shows us in his debut book how:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e– A frail 70-year-old woman became the face of Malaysia’s largest protest that helped overturn the longest-ruling regime in the world;\u003cbr\u003e– A mother-of-two fought through gender and racial unfairness and became the first Asian woman to win the ‘Nobel Prize for Cancer Research’;\u003cbr\u003e– A middle-aged, middle-level government servant exposed the largest white-collar crime in the world;\u003cbr\u003e– A punk graphic artist persevered through multiple arrests and drew one of the most recognisable activist artworks in the region;\u003cbr\u003e– An indigenous retiree battled powerful governments and corporations to usher in one of the largest environmental victories in Southeast Asia;\u003cbr\u003e– A group of leaderless Sikh organisation saved the lives of thousands in the worst flood in modern Malaysian history; and\u003cbr\u003e– A suburban bottom-of-class student found his way through modern history’s bloodiest wars and won the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSang Kancil will force us to reassess what is truly important and remind us of what we are capable of. Filled with research-backed theories, this book is a call-to-action for the underdogs battling our own giants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40148531937315,"sku":"9789815127133","price":32.6,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/DSC_5044.jpg?v=1698202889","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/sang-kancil","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}