'… this volume makes a valuable contribution to the fields of the modern histories of China and Southeast Asia, the history of world communism, of state building and modernization, and studies of anti-colonialism and nationalism. It will be a useful source for scholars and students of Chinese history, social and political history, the Chinese diaspora, and of studies of the Comintern, internationalism, migration, and the communist revolution in Southeast Asia.' Qian Zhu, China and Asia
Part I. Revolution in the Nanyang: 1. Prologue: a Durian for Sun Yatsen; 2. The global world of Chinese networks in the 1920s: The Chinese Revolution and the liberation of the oppressed Minzu; 3. The Nanyang Revolution and the Malayan nation, 1929–1930: nations, migrants, words; Part II. The Comintern, the MCP, and Chinese Networks, 1930–1935: 4. The MCP as a hybrid communist party: structure, discourse, and activity, 1930–1934; 5. The Comintern, Malaya, and Chinese networks, 1930–1936; Part III. The GMD, the MCP, and the Nation: Minzu Cultivated, Minzu Lost: 6. Minzu cultivated, 1928–1940; 7. Language, power, and the MCP's lost nation, 1939–1940; 8. Epilogue.