Malaysia : : The Making of a Nation / / Cheah Boon Kheng.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Boon Kheng, Cheah,
• MitwirkendeR: Gungwu, Wang,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Glossary --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE. 1945–57. Malay Dominance and the Making of a “Malay” Nation-State --; CHAPTER TWO. 1957–2001. The “Bargain” and Contesting Nationalisms --; CHAPTER THREE. 1957–70. “Pluralism” in Nation-Building during the Tunku’s Administration --; CHAPTER FOUR. 1970–76. Malay Dominance, Economic Integration and National Unity under Tun Razak --; CHAPTER FIVE. 1976–81. National Unity and Islamic Fundamentalism under Hussein Onn --; CHAPTER SIX. 1981–2001. The Changing Face of Mahathir’s Nationalism and Nation-Building --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Epilogue --; Chronology --; Bibliography --; Index --; THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789812305145; 9783110649772; 9783111024707; 9783110663006; 9783110606683
• DOI: 10.1355/9789812305145
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Cheah Boon Kheng.

This is an account of the contest between Malay ethno-nationalism and Malaysian nationalism in the making of the Malaysian nation. In spite of Malay dominance in Malaysia, the author argues, the country has not become a "Malay nation-state". This process has been checked by the rival forces of multi-ethnic "Malaysian nationalism" in peninsular Malaysia and the contesting nationalisms and communalism of the other indigenous communities, or bumiputra, in the East Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah. The study focuses on Malaysia's four Prime Ministers as nation-builders, observing that each one of them when he became Prime Minister was transformed from being the head of the Malay party, UMNO, to that of the leader of a multi-ethnic nation. Each began his political career as an "exclusivist" Malay nationalist but eventually ended up re-inventing himself as an "inclusivist" Malaysian nationalist.