The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya : : Tangled Strands of Modernity / / Kah Seng Loh, Guo Quan Seng, Cheng Tju Lim, Edgar Liao.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Loh, Kah Seng,; Liao, Edgar,; Lim, Cheng Tju,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: IIAS Publications ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Photographs --; Abbreviations --; 1. The Socialist Club and the Modernity Project --; 2. Awake in the Bowl of Night --; 3. The Fajar Trial --; 4. Visionary of the Nation, Voice of Stifled Malayans --; 5. A Beacon of Light on the Campus and Beyond --; 6. Frankly Partisan in the Struggle for Student Leadership --; 7. The Shadow over the Club --; 8. Resisting Malaysia, Swansong for Malaya --; 9. Long Night after Coldstore --; 10. In Defence of University Autonomy and Student Rights --; 11. Entwined Memories and Myths --; Conclusion: Modernity in Singapore and Malaya Reconsidered --; The University Socialists: Biographical Sketches --; Timeline of Events --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048515899; 9783110700671; 9783110606515; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048515899?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kah Seng Loh, Guo Quan Seng, Cheng Tju Lim, Edgar Liao.

Using a wealth of material including interviews, official documents, and student writings, the authors recount the rise of newly independent states in postwar Malaya and Singapore through the engagements of a left-wing group of university student activists. The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya brings to life various contemporary movements, including democratic, Marxist, socialist, ethnicity-based groups which seek to influence postcolonial Malaya, as well as their fluid relationships with one another, at a time when allies became enemies, and vice versa. An original and vital study, this volume delves into the complex mental worlds and historical milieu of political and student activism.