No Bed of Roses这本书收藏了五十至七十年代名震新马的脱衣舞娘——陈惠珍的生平故事。陈惠珍的一生，绽放于璀璨艳丽的舞台，担当了性开放的禁忌，也忍受了无数的感情、钱财和信用的背叛打击，最后走完黯然寂寥的晚年。
Cecil Rajendra是陈惠珍生前指定的传记作者，辗转十年，这书当年在新加坡出版，回响颇大。十年过后，属于陈惠珍完整生平的传记终于在她安眠和视为家的槟城出版。这场【岛读开讲𝟎𝟓】我们邀请了Cecil Rajendra与律师Carolyn Oh对谈，说说他们眼中这位传奇人物陈惠珍，同时分享过去与她相处的点滴。
——讲者简介——
Cecil Rajendra是本地著名作者、诗人，曾获得提名2005年年度诺贝尔文学奖，本身还是一名人权律师。
Sent by her impoverished parents from China to Singapore in 1931, six-year-old Rose Chan learned to survive on her wits and bravado. The Flower of Malaya transformed herself into the consummate show woman with her shocking dance moves and snake wrestling acts that took her and her troupe around Malaya and the world.
Behind the glamour, the five marriages, travel and adulation was a life of hardship, sorrow and suffering that threatened to break her but never left her bowed. In her ‘retirement’ years, Rose returned to the one place she felt happiest – Penang – where she ran her famous Sakura club until her untimely death in 1987.
Lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra was introduced to Rose Chan in the 80s when she invited him to pen her memoirs. ‘No Bed of Roses’ charts the remarkable story of Asia’s ‘Striptease Queen’ who was also known as the ‘Charity Queen’ in her later years.
In this talk, Cecil Rajendra will engage in a conversation with Carolyn Oh, the chairman of Penang Bar, providing insights into their perspectives on the iconic figure, Rose Chan.
—— ABOUT THE SPEAKER ——
Cecil Rajendra (born 1941) is a Malaysian poet and lawyer. His poems have been published in more than 50 countries and translated into several languages.