Nationalism and decolonisation in Singapore : the Malayan generation, 1953-1963 /

Nationalism and decolonisation in Singapore : the Malayan generation, 1953-1963 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Thum, Pingtjin, 1979- author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. ©2024
Description:	xv, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
Subject:	Decolonization -- Singapore -- History. Nationalism -- Singapore -- History. Nationalism -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- History. Decolonization Nationalism Singapore -- History -- 1945-1963. Malaya Singapore History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13404800

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Varying Form of Title:	Malayan generation, 1953-1963
ISBN:	9781032484259 103248425X 9781032484242 1032484241 9781003388999 9781000962475 9781000962444
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore's decolonisation movement between 1953-63 and provides a framework to understand the deepest and most important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. This book demonstrates how these conflicts stem from four unresolved schisms dating from the decolonisation period: race, class, language, and the meaning of self-determination. The author argues that these schisms drove the events of decolonisation, the creation of Malaysia, and Singapore's separation, and continue to actively shape Singapore today. Using contemporary English- and Chinese-language sources from a wide array of perspectives, as well as numerous declassified official documents, this book provides a new approach to the most formative period of Singapore history. It explains in detail the different ideologies, institutions, and conflicts which shaped Singaporean politics and society during decolonisation. In particular, the book focuses on the leaders of the main groups which most heavily influenced Singapore's anti-colonial nationalism - the Chinese-speaking, the working class, and left-wing intellectuals. It looks at Singapore in the context of global movements of nationalism, socialism, and decolonisation, and provides a framework which can offer insight into similar attempts by post-colonial governments to construct new nation-states from plural societies. A novel study of Singapore's independence struggle that incorporates and analyses multiple linguistic, socioeconomic, and political viewpoints, the book will be of interest to researchers of Southeast Asian History and Politics, and those interested in decolonisation, nationalism, identity, and the politics of race, class, and language"--
Other form:	Online version: Thum, Pingtjin, 1979- Nationalism and decolonisation in Singapore. New York : Routledge, 2023 9781003388999

Table of Contents:

Why Malayan?
The Origins of Malayan Nationalism
Mass Movements and Education, 1953-55
Political Parties, 1954-55
Associationalism, 1955-56
Transitional Politics, 1955-57
Electoral Politics, 1957-61
The Meaning of Self-Determination, 1961-63
Legacies.