Nanyang Revolution - The Comintern and Chinese Networks in Southeast Asia, 1890-1957

An innovative analysis of the Malayan Communist Party in the context of the emergence of nationalism in Southeast Asia and the interplay of overseas Chinese networks and the Comintern. Based on new archival research, Belogurova provides fresh international perspectives on the history of Malaysia, Chinese communism, the Cold War, and decolonization.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Anna Belogurova is a research fellow at the Institute for China Studies, the Freie Universität Berlin.

Summary

An innovative analysis of the Malayan Communist Party in the context of the emergence of nationalism in Southeast Asia and the interplay of overseas Chinese networks and the Comintern. Based on new archival research, Belogurova provides fresh international perspectives on the history of Malaysia, Chinese communism, the Cold War, and decolonization.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Belogurova, Anna (Freie Universitat Berlin) Belogurova
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781108458184
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45818-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Malaysia, English, 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, South East Asia, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Chinese, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Asian History, Marxism & Communism