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- 2012505596 abstract "The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates how it is better understood as involving a shared modernist project framed by British-planned decolonization. This pursuit of nationalist modernity was characterized by an optimism to replace the colonial system with a new state and mobilize the people into a new relationship with the state, according them new responsibilities as well as new rights. This book, based on student writings, official documents and oral history interviews, brings to life various modernist strands - liberal-democratic, ethnic-communal, and Fabian and Marxist socialist - seeking to determine the form of postcolonial Malaya. It uncovers a hitherto little-seen world where the meanings of loud slogans were fluid, vague and deeply contested.".
- 2012505596 contributor B12660352.
- 2012505596 coverage "Malaysia History.".
- 2012505596 coverage "Malaysia Politics and government 20th century.".
- 2012505596 coverage "Singapore History 1945-1963.".
- 2012505596 coverage "Singapore Politics and government 1945-1963.".
- 2012505596 created "c2012.".
- 2012505596 date "2012".
- 2012505596 date "c2012.".
- 2012505596 dateCopyrighted "c2012.".
- 2012505596 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.".
- 2012505596 description "The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates how it is better understood as involving a shared modernist project framed by British-planned decolonization. This pursuit of nationalist modernity was characterized by an optimism to replace the colonial system with a new state and mobilize the people into a new relationship with the state, according them new responsibilities as well as new rights. This book, based on student writings, official documents and oral history interviews, brings to life various modernist strands - liberal-democratic, ethnic-communal, and Fabian and Marxist socialist - seeking to determine the form of postcolonial Malaya. It uncovers a hitherto little-seen world where the meanings of loud slogans were fluid, vague and deeply contested.".
- 2012505596 extent "347 p. :".
- 2012505596 identifier "9089644091".
- 2012505596 identifier "9789089644091".
- 2012505596 isPartOf "IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 7".
- 2012505596 isPartOf "IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 7.".
- 2012505596 issued "2012".
- 2012505596 issued "c2012.".
- 2012505596 language "eng".
- 2012505596 publisher "Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,".
- 2012505596 spatial "Malaysia History.".
- 2012505596 spatial "Malaysia Politics and government 20th century.".
- 2012505596 spatial "Malaysia".
- 2012505596 spatial "Singapore History 1945-1963.".
- 2012505596 spatial "Singapore Politics and government 1945-1963.".
- 2012505596 spatial "Singapore".
- 2012505596 subject "DS610.6 .U54 2012".
- 2012505596 subject "Students Political activity Malaysia History.".
- 2012505596 subject "Students Political activity Singapore History.".
- 2012505596 title "The University Socialist Club and the contest for Malaya : tangled strands of modernity / Kah Seng Loh ... [et al.].".
- 2012505596 type "text".