{{Short description|Malaysian Communist}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox writer | honorific_prefix = | name = Suriani Abdullah | native_name = <!--The person's name in their own language, if different.--> | native_name_lang = <!--ISO 639-1 code, e.g., "fr" for French. If more than one, use {{lang}} in |native_name= instead.--> | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | birth_name = Eng Ming Ching | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1925|01|23}} | birth_place = Sitiawan, Manjung, Perak, Malaya | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2013|03|20|1925|01|23}} | death_place = Sukhirin, Thailand | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | nationality = | height = <!-- "X cm", "X m" or "X ft Y in" plus optional reference (conversions are automatic) --> | spouse = {{marriage|Abdullah CD|1955|2013}} | partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> | relations = | children = 1 daughter | parents = <!-- over-rides mother and father parameters --> | mother = <!-- may be used (optionally with father parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | father = <!-- may be used (optionally with mother parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | relatives = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Writer | profession = | known_for = }}
'''Suriani Abdullah''' (born '''Eng Ming Ching'''; 23 January 1925 – 20 March 2013) was a former central committee member of the Communist Party of Malaya.<ref>{{cite web|title=Suriani Abdullah (1924-2013) - Seorang pejuang kemerdekaan dan anti-imperialis|url=http://partisosialis.org/node/2502|website=partisosialis.org/|publisher=Socialist party of Malaysia|accessdate=26 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Vengadesan|first=Martin|title=At peace in their village|url=http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/11/29/lifefocus/5184429&sec=lifefocus|newspaper=The Star|date=29 November 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024085715/http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=%2F2009%2F11%2F29%2Flifefocus%2F5184429&sec=lifefocus|archive-date=24 October 2012}}</ref>
==Background== Suriani was born on 23 January 1925 in Sitiawan, Perak. She attended Nan Hwa High School, where she met other communists such as Tu Lung Shan and Chin Peng, and was politically radicalised.<ref>Wong, James Wing-on. [http://www.malaysiakini.com/opinions/34828 Suriani, the Resistance Heroine]. Malaysiakini. 29 March 2005. Retrieved 15 March 2013.</ref> In 1940, Suriani joined the underground Communist Party of Malaya and was actively involved in mobilising and organising women workers in the Kinta Valley.<ref name="WongMakcik" /> She was elected a member of the Central Committee Member in 1975.<ref name="WongMakcik" />
She is the author of ''Rejimen Ke-10 dan Kemerdekaan'' (''The 10th Regiment and Independence''),<ref>Abdullah, Suriani. Rejimen Ke-10 dan Kemerdekaan. Hong Kong: Nan Dao, 1999.</ref> the official historical account of the 10th Regiment of the Malayan People's National Liberation Army,<ref name="WongMakcik">Wong, James Wing-on. "[https://jameswongwingon-online.blogspot.com/2006/03/makcik-suriani-abdullahs-memoirs-out.html Makcik Suriani's Memoirs are Out]" Clare Street. 28 March 2006. Retrieved 15 March 2013.</ref> and ''Memoir Suriani Abdullah: Setengah Abad Perjuangan'' (''The Memoirs of Suriani Abdullah: A Half-Century Struggle'').<ref>Abdullah, Suriani. ''Memoir Suriani Abdullah''.</ref>
==Later life and death== She resided in Chulaporn Village No. 12 in Sukhirin, Thailand with her husband, Abdullah CD, with their daughter and her family until her death on 20 March 2013.<ref>"[http://ilovemalaya.wordpress.com/i-love-malaya-the-lyrics/ Characters and 'I Love Malaya]' Lyrics" ''I Love Malaya'' (2006). Dirs. Ho Choon Hiong, Chan Kah Mei, Christopher Len, Wang Eng Eng, Eunice Lau. Objectif Films.</ref>
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Category:1925 births Category:2013 deaths Category:Malaysian non-fiction writers Category:Malaysian women writers Category:Communist women writers Category:Malaysian communists Category:Malaysian people of Chinese descent Category:People from Sitiawan Category:20th-century Malaysian women writers Category:21st-century Malaysian women writers