Keo, Bernard Z. (March 2019). „A small, distant war? Historiographical reflections on the Malayan Emergency“. History Compass. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. 17 (3): e12523. doi:10.1111/hic3.12523. S2CID150617654. ციტატა: „Despite their innocuous nomenclature, New Villages were in fact, as Tan demonstrates, concentration camps designed less to keep the communists out but to place the rural Chinese population under strict government surveillance and control.“
Keo, Bernard Z. (March 2019). „A small, distant war? Historiographical reflections on the Malayan Emergency“. History Compass. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. 17 (3): e12523. doi:10.1111/hic3.12523. S2CID150617654. ციტატა: „Despite their innocuous nomenclature, New Villages were in fact, as Tan demonstrates, concentration camps designed less to keep the communists out but to place the rural Chinese population under strict government surveillance and control.“