Contents:

Preface
Introduction

1. Early Days in Malaya
2. Yap Ah Loy moves to Kuala Lumpur
3. Quarrelling amongst the Malays
4. Yap Ah Loy becomes Capitan China
5. The Murder of “Sweet Potato” Ah Sze
6. Raja Mahdi instals Yap Ah Loy as Capitan China
7. Mahdi is driven out of Klang
8. Yap Ah Loy seeks help from the Sultan
9. The Kanching Massacre
10. The First Attack on Kuala Lumpur
11. Fighting round Rawang
12. July to September, 1871
13. Raja Asal changes sides
14. The loss of Kuala Lumpur
15. The end of the Civil War
16. British Intervention in Selangor
17. Yap Ah Loy as an Administrator
18. The Last Years

Notes on the Text
Notes on the Sources Used
Map 1, Selangor in the 1870s
Map 2, The environs of Kuala Lumpur
Map 3, Ulu Selangor in the 1870s
Map 4, Kuala Lumpur in the 1880s