The University Socialist Club and the contest for Malaya : tangled strands of modernity /

The University Socialist Club and the contest for Malaya : tangled strands of modernity /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Language:	English
Series:	IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 7 IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 7.
Subject:	University Socialist Club (Singapore) -- History. University Socialist Club (Singapore) Students -- Political activity -- Malaysia -- History. Students -- Political activity -- Singapore -- History. Student movements -- Malaysia. Student movements -- Singapore. Universities and colleges -- Singapore -- Societies, etc. -- History. Universities and colleges -- Malaysia -- Societies, etc. -- History. Politics and government. Student movements. Students -- Political activity. Universities and colleges -- Societies, etc. Malaya -- History -- 1945- Malaya -- Politics and government -- 1945- Singapore -- History -- 1945- Singapore -- Politics and government -- 1945- Malaya. Malaysia. Singapore. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11136312

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Loh, Kah Seng.
ISBN:	9048515890 9789048515899 1283698315 9781283698313 9789089644091 9089644091
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references ([325]-335 pages) and index.
Summary:	"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 post-colonial 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"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: University Socialist Club and the contest for Malaya. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012 9789089644091 9089644091

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Summary:	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.<br>
Physical Description:	1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references ([325]-335 pages) and index.
ISBN:	9048515890 9789048515899 1283698315 9781283698313 9789089644091 9089644091