Nanyang : : Essays on Heritage / / Gungwu Wang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Wang, Gungwu,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION --; PART ONE. Malaya in Malaysia --; 2. The Call for Malaysia --; 3. Malaya: Platform for Nation Building --; PART TWO. Locality in Flux --; 4. Remembering Goh Keng Swee --; 5. Before Nation: Chinese Peranakan --; 6. Singapore, Loyalty and Identity --; 7. Heritage with History --; PART THREE. Reframing Contexts --; 8. Reflections on Divisive Modernity --; 9. End of Empire --; 10. Family and Friends: China South and Southeast --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814786522; 9783110719550; 9783110606775
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814786522
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gungwu Wang.

This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the struggle to build new nations during four decades of an ideological Cold War and the Chinese determination to move from near-collapse in the 1940s and out of the traumatic changes of the Maoist revolution to become the powerhouse that it now is.