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Nanyang: Essays on Heritage

By Gungwu Wang

Book information

Publisher
ISEAS Publishing
Year
2018
ISBN
9789814786522
DOI
10.1355/9789814786522
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5473851 bytes)
Pages
221\223
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 08:17:57

Description

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.

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