Imagining Malaya

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Imagining Malaya

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Author : Bernard Z. Keo
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-01-02

Imagining Malaya written by Bernard Z. Keo and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-02 with History categories.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The end of Britain's empire in Southeast Asia in the wake of World War II generated new opportunities for colonial subjects across the region to reimagine themselves as citizens of a dizzying array of potential new nations. While post-war optimism and a global push for decolonisation created an environment where myriad communities felt a palpable sense of possibility for bringing their aspirations of nationhood to life, many of these desires were unfulfilled. Imagining Malaya is an exploration of one of those many imagined nations that never came to be. It narrates a series of seemingly disparate and contradictory political acts by the Peranakan Chinese -- a creolised community borne of intermarriage between the earliest Chinese migrants to the region and indigenous Malays -- in the post-World War II period to demonstrate that the community were, in fact, seeking to bring to life a cosmopolitan, inclusive, and multi-ethnic imagination of the Malay(si)an nation. Engaging in a critical re-examination of the intertwined processes of decolonization and nation-making, Imagining Malaya provides an alternative reading of Malay(si)a's path to merdeka (independence) from the perspective of the Peranakan. It narrates how a once powerful community at the centre of Malay(si)an politics and society came undone by their attempts to present an alternative imagination of the nation which challenged the ethnocentrism that came to dominate the country's political life. Rewriting the Peranakan into the centre of Malaysia's national story rather than its periphery is a parable on the complexities and pitfalls of attempting to forge a representative nation-state from a multi-ethnic society during the transition between colony and nation. By bringing the Peranakan imaginary of the nation to life, Bernard Z. Keo makes a case for how studying nations that were unrealized can reveal just as much as investigating those that were.

Imagining Singapore

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Author : Kah Choon Ban
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
Release Date : 2004

Imagining Singapore written by Kah Choon Ban and has been published by Marshall Cavendish Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

This book explores the unique Singapore experience: its internal landscape, how the landscape came about, was conceived of and conceptualised, and how the imagination played and continues to play an important role in such conceptions. the collected essays, cover a wide range of topics relating to Singapore society. These include historiography, resource and recreational planning, bilingualism and population management, religion and politics, and gender. A common thread tying together these essays is the mental construction of reality from which thinking proceeds. This new edition features two new essays ("Imagining Freedom" and "Imagining the Singapore Economy in the Next Lap"), revisions and updates to the original essays, and a new preface by the editors.

Malaya

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Author : Myra Buttle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954

Malaya written by Myra Buttle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Communism categories.

Southeast Asia S Modern Architecture

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Author : Jiat-Hwee Chang
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2019

Southeast Asia S Modern Architecture written by Jiat-Hwee Chang and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Architecture categories.

What is the modern in Southeast Asia's architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume is the first critical survey of Southeast Asia's modern architecture. It looks at the challenges of studying this complex history through the conceptual frameworks of translation, epistemology, and power. Challenging Eurocentric ideas and architectural nomenclature, the authors examine the development of modern architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on selective translation and strategic appropriation of imported ideas and practices by local architects and builders. The book transforms our understandings of the region's modern architecture by moving beyond a consideration of architecture as an aesthetic artifact and instead examining its entanglement with different dynamics of power.

A Descriptive Dictionary Of British Malaya

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Author : Nicholas Belfield Dennys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

A Descriptive Dictionary Of British Malaya written by Nicholas Belfield Dennys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Ethnology categories.

Berita

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Berita written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Brunei categories.

Camping And Tramping In Malaya

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Author : Ambrose B. Rathborne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

Camping And Tramping In Malaya written by Ambrose B. Rathborne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Malay States, Federated categories.

Some Notes On The Government Services In British Malaya

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Author : Cuthbert Woodville Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929

Some Notes On The Government Services In British Malaya written by Cuthbert Woodville Harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with British categories.

Imagining Siam

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Author : Caron Eastgate Dann
language : en
Publisher: Monash Asia Institute
Release Date : 2008

Imagining Siam written by Caron Eastgate Dann and has been published by Monash Asia Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.

Thailand has been systematically transformed into a classic neocolonial object of Western desire - an easily penetrated erotic zone that caters to the appetites of Western interlopers. In the first comprehensive critical study of Western literature about Thailand, Imagining Siam provides a thorough analysis - using Edward Said's concepts - of English language travelogues and travel literature. It offers a broad view, covering literary attempts to describe Siam in the 13th century, through the formative phase of Western engagement in the 16th century and the various competing European imperialisms in the 19th century, to today's era of mass tourism and the global reach of economically and culturally powerful 'First World' populations. Imagining Siam will appeal to those interested in Thailand, critiques of travel writing, and the Anna Leonowens' legacy (Anna of Anna and the King of Siam).

Rainbows Of Malay Literature And Beyond

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Author : Lalita Sinha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Rainbows Of Malay Literature And Beyond written by Lalita Sinha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Malay literature categories.