Nanyang : essays on heritage / Wang Gangwu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Gungwu, author.

Contributor:

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Malaya.

Chinese.

Chinese--Singapore.

Peranakan (Asian people)--Malaya.

Peranakan (Asian people).

Chinese--Malaysia--Ethnic identity.

Chinese--Singapore--Ethnic Identity.

Malaysia--Relations--China.

Malaysia.

Singapore--Relations--China.

Singapore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the struggle to build new nations during four decades of an ideological Cold War and the Chinese determination to move from near-collapse in the 1940s and out of the traumatic changes of the Maoist revolution to become the powerhouse that it now is.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION

PART ONE. Malaya in Malaysia

2. The Call for Malaysia

3. Malaya: Platform for Nation Building

PART TWO. Locality in Flux

4. Remembering Goh Keng Swee

5. Before Nation: Chinese Peranakan

6. Singapore, Loyalty and Identity

7. Heritage with History

PART THREE. Reframing Contexts

8. Reflections on Divisive Modernity

9. End of Empire

10. Family and Friends: China South and Southeast

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814786522

9814786527

OCLC:

1049668712