Sang Kancil: A Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds

Sang Kancil: A Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds 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. Through seven moving tales of courage, prolific Malaysian writer James Chai shows us in his debut book how: a frail sixty-four-year-old woman became the face of Malaysia’s largest protest that helped overturn the longest-ruling regime in the world; a mother of two fought through gender and racial unfairness and became the first Asian woman to win the ‘Nobel Prize for Cancer Research’; a middle-aged, middle-level government servant exposed the largest white-collar crime in the world; a punk graphic artist persevered through multiple arrests and drew one of the most recognizable activist artworks in the region; an indigenous retiree battled powerful governments and corporations to usher in one of the largest environmental victories in Southeast Asia; a group of leaderless Sikh organization saved the lives of thousands in the worst flood in modern Malaysian history; and a suburban bottom-of-class student found his way through modern history’s bloodiest wars and won the Pulitzer Prize.