在马来西亚研究中,“马共研究”应该属于一个重要的研究领域,但因资料取得有所困难、研究对象不易安排、研究课题有所禁忌等原因,造成相关的研究人员稀缺和研究成果不够完整,进而导致“马共研究”的发展进度缓慢。作为意识形态上对手,殖民地政府不但掌握了大量马共的情报资料,也对马共进行了深入的分析和研究,相信这便是“马共研究”的开端。之后,学术界和民间才逐渐展开与马共相关的研究。这些研究主要涉及了马共的历史研究、策略/军事研究、组织结构/特色研究等层面。无论如何,许多早期的研究成果因仰赖于官方的解密档案,欠缺了马共自身档案和观点,因此内容或有偏颇,或是无法深入探讨和分析马共及其相关的事件。如今,随着和解后,许多前马共成员透过出版相关回忆录,或公开档案资料,或出席公开活动等各种方式,逐渐释出马共过往的种种是与非,为后来的马共研究者提供了更加有利的研究条件。本文尝试粗略回顾并探究1930年代以来“马共研究”的发展状况和研究意义,希望能够引发更多人对“马共研究”的关注和重视。
Study on the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) should be an important part in the Malaysian Studies. However, due to difficulties in accessing the related documents or target group, certain restrictions in the study and so on, lead to the slow development of CPM Studies, either in numbers of researcher or its research outcomes. As an ideological enemy, British colonial government in Malaya not only obtained large amounts of data and intelligence information of CPM, but also conducted lots of in-depth analysis and researched on CPM. It's believed that is the beginning of the CPM Studies. Since then, the CPM Studies were gradually expanded to the academia and civil sector. The CPM Studies mainly focused on CPM history, military strategy, organization structure, characteristic and so on. However, most of the early CPM Studies were relied to the declassified documents which possess the official perspective, make the CPM research results a bit biased or unable to conduct in-depth discussion and analysis on certain issues related to CPM. After the historical Hadyai Peace Accord signed on the 1989, many former CPM members started to publish their memoirs, released some important documents or even attending public events, etc., try to explore their past gradually to the public. Their efforts have provided more favorable conditions for the coming researchers. This paper attempts to give a brief reviews on CPM studies since 1930's and its research development and significance to Malaysian history, in order to raise more interest and attention among our community.