Nanyang Essays on Heritage /

Nanyang [electronic resource] : Essays on Heritage / Wang Gangwu.

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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 th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Wang, Gungwu (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Singapore : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018.
Subjects:
Chinese > Singapore > Ethnic identity.
Chinese > Malaysia > Ethnic identity.
Peranakan (Asian people) > Malaysia.
Chinese > Singapore.
Chinese > Malaysia.
Chinese.
Chinese > Ethnic identity.
Diplomatic relations.
Peranakan (Asian people)
Singapore > Foreign relations > China.
Malaysia > Foreign relations > China.
China.
Malaysia.
Singapore.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • part I. Malaya in Malaysia
  • 2. The call for Malaysia
  • 3. Malaya : platform for nation building
  • Part ii. Locality in flux
  • 4. Remembering Goh Keng Swee
  • 5. Before nation : Chinese Peranakan
  • 6. Singapore, loyalty and identity
  • 7. Heritage with History
  • part III. Reframing contexts
  • 8. Reflections on divisive modernity
  • 9. End of empire
  • 10. Family and friends : China south and southeast.

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