Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore: The Malayan Generation, 1953 - 1963

ISBN-13: 9781032484259 / Angielski

Thum Ping Tjin

Opis

This book analyses Singapore’s decolonisation movement between 1953-63 and important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. It will be of interest to researchers of Southeast Asian History and Politics, and those interested in decolonisation, nationalism, identity, and the politics of race, class, and language.

Recenzje

“Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore does important work in moving Chinese voices, and especially Chinese-language newspapers, to centre-stage in the history of Singapore’s turbulent 1950s-60s. In doing so, it recognises that ‘decolonisation’ was as much a battle over what sort of postcolonial state and society should emerge – Malayan or Singaporean; liberal, socialist or communist; English language dominated in education or more multilingual – as it was about how to gain independence. This book should be read both by those sympathetic to this book’s contention that the Malayan Communist Party’s role in the ‘Malayan left’ has been exaggerated, and by  those who will continue to disagree with that argument. It adds rich texture to the story of how modern Singapore emerged out of a maelstrom of protest, passion, and anticolonial creativity and conflict.”

– Karl Hack, Open University, UK

Spis treści

1: Why Malayan? 2: The Origins of Malayan Nationalism; 3: Mass Movements and Education, 1953–55; 4: Political Parties, 1954–55; 5: Associationalism, 1955–56; 6: Transitional Politics, 1955–57; 7: Electoral Politics, 1957–61; 8: The Meaning of Self-Determination, 1961–63; 9: Legacies; Index

O autorze

Thum Ping Tjin is a historian and Visiting Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK, and also the founder and Managing Director of New Naratif.