Imagining Malaya - Peranakan Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Belonging At End of Empire,

A political history of Malaysia that prompts reconsideration of the country's path to independence and nationhood, examining the political trajectory of the Peranakan Chinese-a cosmopolitan minority community emerging from intermarriage between ethnic Chinese and ethnic Malays with their own unique culture-in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

About the author

Bernard Z. Keo is an Assistant Professor of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute. A political historian by training, he specialises in the intertwined processes of decolonization and nation-making in Malaysia and Singapore following the end of World War II. His further research interests include the Malayan Emergency, urban life in the port-cities of Southeast Asia, and transnational networks across the Malay World. He also teaches and researches in the Digital Humanities, having been part of the team that built Virtual Angkor, an award-winning digital education platform.

Summary

A political history of Malaysia that prompts reconsideration of the country's path to independence and nationhood, examining the political trajectory of the Peranakan Chinese-a cosmopolitan minority community emerging from intermarriage between ethnic Chinese and ethnic Malays with their own unique culture-in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Z. Keo, Bernard Z. (Assistant Professor of Internatio Keo
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9780198917083
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891708-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence