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Author:   Gregory Bracken
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.334kg
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9789089643988

ISBN 10:   9089643982
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   20 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
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Among burgeoning studies on urban globalization, Aspects of Urbanization in China stands out as genuinely interdisciplinary. These lavishly detailed local accounts of three major Chinese cities by experts in architectural and cultural studies produce a refreshingly intimate knowledge of global metropolitan typologies. - Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill 9789089644091 The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya Loh, Kah Seng - Liao, Edgar - Lim, Cheng Tju - Seng, Guo-Quan nation building - democracy process - Malaysia HIS - PLS 754 2012 Amsterdam University Press IIAS Publications series 350 In print - BoV scan laser - MUP aut 2012 - EngCat Aut 2012 - Durnell najaar 2012 - Chicago Cat fall 2012 - aangekondigd najaar 2012 - CentraalBoekhuis_eBooks - LSI - Bibliovault - Ebrary - Yindo - Dawson - EBooksCorp - Google - iGroup garenloos gebrocheerd Boek Monographs 7 Tangled Strands of Modernity ENG W 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. This world also comprised as much convergence between the groups as conflict, including collaboration between the Socialist Club and other political and student groups which were once its rivals, while its main ally eventually became its nemesis. Kah Seng Loh is a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University. - Edgar Liao is history tutor at the National University of Singapore. - Lim Cheng Tju is an educator in Singapore who has written about history, popular culture and the arts. - Seng Guo Quan is a history PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. 15,6 x 23,4 537 45,95 39,50 62,50 6 Engelse co-publicatie NUS Press, Singapore voor exclusieve verkoop in Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Timor Leste, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Peoples Republic of China. (330 euro) JPL 05 PoD Btld - PoD NL - Ebooks In dit boek wordt natievorming van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog van Singapore en Maleisie aanschouwelijk gemaakt door bestudering van een kleine groep linkse studentenactivisten. Ondanks dat de meeste onderzoeken naar deze periode zich richten op politieke protestgroepen om tot een verklaring te komen, laat deze publicatie zien dat het beter gezien kan worden als een project binnen het toen door de Britten geplande traject van dekolonisatie. Het boek, gebaseerd op stukken van studenten, officiele documenten en mondelinge verslagen, brengt tot leven op welke wijze bepaald werd welke toekomstige maatschappij geschikt zou zijn voor het postkoloniale Maleisie: liberaal-democratisch, ethisch-bepaald, Fabian- of Marxistisch socialistisch. Het legt een wereld bloot waarin de betekenis van schreeuwerige slogans vaag blijken te zijn, en waarinl oude bondgenoten uit elkaar groeiden. Maar waarin op hetzelfde moment conflicterende groepen, zoals de Socialist Club en andere politieke en studentenbewegingen, uiteindelijk samenwerkten om tot een natievorming te komen 9789048515899 10 9789048515905 Kah Seng Loh is postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan de Universiteit van Kyoto. - Edgar Liao is docent geschiedenis aan de Nationale Universiteit van Singapore. - Lim Cheng Tju is docent in Singapore en heeft gepubliceerd over geschiedenis, populaire cultuur en kunst. - Seng Guo Quan promoveert in geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Chicago. The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya - 1 Contents - 8 Acknowledgments - 12 List of Photographs - 16 Abbreviations - 18 1 The Socialist Club and the Modernity Project - 20 2 Awake in the Bowl of Night - 42 3 The Fajar Trial - 62 4 Visionary of the Nation, Voice of Stifled Malayans - 82 5 A Beacon of Light on the Campus and Beyond - 106 6 Frankly Partisan in the Struggle for Student Leadership - 128 7 The Shadow over the Club - 154 8 Resisting Malaysia, Swansong for Malaya - 168 9 Long Night after Coldstore - 192 10 In Defence of University Autonomy and Student Rights - 210 11 Entwined Memories and Myths - 234 Conclusion: Modernity in Singapore and Malaya Reconsidered - 256 The University Socialists: Biographical Sketches - 266 Timeline of Events - 282 Notes - 288 Bibliography - 326 Index - 338 O:\IIAS PUBLICATIONS SERIES\Loh e.a. -- 9789089644091 -- The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya\Omslag\9789089644091_prom.jpg This is an immensely compelling, informative and skillfully written account, informed by recent research, on the role of a formidable student movement in colonial Malaya and Singapore during the Cold War era and its active engagement in liberal democratic principles, the socialist ideology and the making of a new nation. -- Dr Cheah Boon Kheng, (retired) professor of history at Universiti Sains Malaysia - This study captures a brief Malayan moment in the history of Singapore and throws light on why the moment did not last. It is a strong example of alternative history in which losers' stories are not only told but also help to correct official accounts. Remarkably, it also shows how historians juggle with memories of pain and regret as they try not to make new myths. -- Wang Gungwu, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

Among burgeoning studies on urban globalization, Aspects of Urbanization in China stands out as genuinely interdisciplinary. These lavishly detailed local accounts of three major Chinese cities by experts in architectural and cultural studies produce a refreshingly intimate knowledge of global metropolitan typologies. - Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill 9789089644091 The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya Loh, Kah Seng - Liao, Edgar - Lim, Cheng Tju - Seng, Guo-Quan nation building - democracy process - Malaysia HIS - PLS 754 2012 Amsterdam University Press IIAS Publications series 350 In print - BoV scan laser - MUP aut 2012 - EngCat Aut 2012 - Durnell najaar 2012 - Chicago Cat fall 2012 - aangekondigd najaar 2012 - CentraalBoekhuis_eBooks - LSI - Bibliovault - Ebrary - Yindo - Dawson - EBooksCorp - Google - iGroup garenloos gebrocheerd Boek Monographs 7 Tangled Strands of Modernity ENG W 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. This world also comprised as much convergence between the groups as conflict, including collaboration between the Socialist Club and other political and student groups which were once its rivals, while its main ally eventually became its nemesis. Kah Seng Loh is a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University. - Edgar Liao is history tutor at the National University of Singapore. - Lim Cheng Tju is an educator in Singapore who has written about history, popular culture and the arts. - Seng Guo Quan is a history PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. 15,6 x 23,4 537 45,95 39,50 62,50 6 Engelse co-publicatie NUS Press, Singapore voor exclusieve verkoop in Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Timor Leste, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Peoples Republic of China. (330 euro) JPL 05 PoD Btld - PoD NL - Ebooks In dit boek wordt natievorming van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog van Singapore en Maleisie aanschouwelijk gemaakt door bestudering van een kleine groep linkse studentenactivisten. Ondanks dat de meeste onderzoeken naar deze periode zich richten op politieke protestgroepen om tot een verklaring te komen, laat deze publicatie zien dat het beter gezien kan worden als een project binnen het toen door de Britten geplande traject van dekolonisatie. Het boek, gebaseerd op stukken van studenten, officiele documenten en mondelinge verslagen, brengt tot leven op welke wijze bepaald werd welke toekomstige maatschappij geschikt zou zijn voor het postkoloniale Maleisie: liberaal-democratisch, ethisch-bepaald, Fabian- of Marxistisch socialistisch. Het legt een wereld bloot waarin de betekenis van schreeuwerige slogans vaag blijken te zijn, en waarinl oude bondgenoten uit elkaar groeiden. Maar waarin op hetzelfde moment conflicterende groepen, zoals de Socialist Club en andere politieke en studentenbewegingen, uiteindelijk samenwerkten om tot een natievorming te komen 9789048515899 10 9789048515905 Kah Seng Loh is postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan de Universiteit van Kyoto. - Edgar Liao is docent geschiedenis aan de Nationale Universiteit van Singapore. - Lim Cheng Tju is docent in Singapore en heeft gepubliceerd over geschiedenis, populaire cultuur en kunst. - Seng Guo Quan promoveert in geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Chicago. The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya - 1 Contents - 8 Acknowledgments - 12 List of Photographs - 16 Abbreviations - 18 1 The Socialist Club and the Modernity Project - 20 2 Awake in the Bowl of Night - 42 3 The Fajar Trial - 62 4 Visionary of the Nation, Voice of Stifled Malayans - 82 5 A Beacon of Light on the Campus and Beyond - 106 6 Frankly Partisan in the Struggle for Student Leadership - 128 7 The Shadow over the Club - 154 8 Resisting Malaysia, Swansong for Malaya - 168 9 Long Night after Coldstore - 192 10 In Defence of University Autonomy and Student Rights - 210 11 Entwined Memories and Myths - 234 Conclusion: Modernity in Singapore and Malaya Reconsidered - 256 The University Socialists: Biographical Sketches - 266 Timeline of Events - 282 Notes - 288 Bibliography - 326 Index - 338 O:\IIAS PUBLICATIONS SERIES\Loh e.a. -- 9789089644091 -- The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya\Omslag\9789089644091_web.jpg This is an immensely compelling, informative and skillfully written account, informed by recent research, on the role of a formidable student movement in colonial Malaya and Singapore during the Cold War era and its active engagement in liberal democratic principles, the socialist ideology and the making of a new nation. -- Dr Cheah Boon Kheng, (retired) professor of history at Universiti Sains Malaysia - This study captures a brief Malayan moment in the history of Singapore and throws light on why the moment did not last. It is a strong example of alternative history in which losers' stories are not only told but also help to correct official accounts. Remarkably, it also shows how historians juggle with memories of pain and regret as they try not to make new myths. -- Wang Gungwu, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

This book offers impressive arguments on the subject of Chinese cities and their evolution. Contributions deal mostly with architectural aspects of Chinese urbanization. However, architecture is not an end in itself, for it is used by the authors as a tool to study the transformation of Chinese cities from post-colonial to global megalopolises. [ ] This book should be read by everyone interested in Chinese cities, and not only by architects, as it demonstrates the consequences of architectural choices on many aspects of Chinese urban society. [Sebastien Goulard on http://urbachina.hypotheses.org/1589 (November 19, 2012) - Among burgeoning studies on urban globalization, Aspects of Urbanization in China stands out as genuinely interdisciplinary. These lavishly detailed local accounts of three major Chinese cities by experts in architectural and cultural studies produce a refreshingly intimate knowledge of global metropolitan typologies. - Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

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Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013), Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015), Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020), and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019).

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