The Further Side of Silence is a collection of short stories by Hugh Clifford, British Resident of Penang (1896-1900), Governor of North Borneo (1900-1901) and Governor of the Straits Settlements (1927-1930). The short stories in this collection, while fictional, are based on Clifford's personal experiences in the Malay Peninsula. In his preface, Clifford claims that these stories "faithfully reproduce the conditions of life as they existed in the Malayan Peninsula before the white man took a hand in the government of the native states, or immediately after our coming - things as I knew them between 1883 and 1903."
