Imagining Malaya
Over the course of British colonial rule in Malaya, the Peranakan Chinese (hereafter referred to as Peranakan) attempted to bring to life a complex imagination of nationhood predicated on an inclusive and multi-ethnic approach to integrating Malaya’s plural society. A creolized community borne of in...
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2025
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| author | Keo, Bernard Z. |
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| description | Over the course of British colonial rule in Malaya, the Peranakan Chinese (hereafter referred to as Peranakan) attempted to bring to life a complex imagination of nationhood predicated on an inclusive and multi-ethnic approach to integrating Malaya’s plural society. A creolized community borne of intermarriage between Chinese migrants anqd indigenous Malays, Peranakan ideas of nationhood and belonging were influenced by their liminality. In word and deed, Peranakan political actors campaigned for the extension of citizenship rights to all those domiciled in Malaya regardless of race, class, or religion. Yet, this political history has largely been overlooked. In examining the Peranakan imaginary of the nation, Imagining Malaya explores one of the many alternatives of a Malayan nation that were imagined—and were possible at one point or another—that have yet to be studied. Centring the Peranakan into Malaysia’s story of decolonization and nation-making, it casts a new light on Malaysia’s path to nationhood and who is included—and excluded—within that story. The book examines Peranakan politics in Malaya from the arrival of the British on Penang Island in 1786 to the end of British rule in Malaya upon the latter’s independence on 31 August 1957, focussing primarily on the community’s political activities during Malaya’s complex path to merdeka (independence). This monograph reveals how seemingly disparate political acts by the Peranakan were in reality bound together by a cosmopolitan sense of identity and belonging as leading figures from the community sought to build an inclusive Malayan nation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1538192025-07-30T08:59:57Z Imagining Malaya Keo, Bernard Z. Malaysian history, Singaporean history, imperial history, decolonization, nation-making, cosmopolitanism, Peranakan Chinese thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History Over the course of British colonial rule in Malaya, the Peranakan Chinese (hereafter referred to as Peranakan) attempted to bring to life a complex imagination of nationhood predicated on an inclusive and multi-ethnic approach to integrating Malaya’s plural society. A creolized community borne of intermarriage between Chinese migrants anqd indigenous Malays, Peranakan ideas of nationhood and belonging were influenced by their liminality. In word and deed, Peranakan political actors campaigned for the extension of citizenship rights to all those domiciled in Malaya regardless of race, class, or religion. Yet, this political history has largely been overlooked. In examining the Peranakan imaginary of the nation, Imagining Malaya explores one of the many alternatives of a Malayan nation that were imagined—and were possible at one point or another—that have yet to be studied. Centring the Peranakan into Malaysia’s story of decolonization and nation-making, it casts a new light on Malaysia’s path to nationhood and who is included—and excluded—within that story. The book examines Peranakan politics in Malaya from the arrival of the British on Penang Island in 1786 to the end of British rule in Malaya upon the latter’s independence on 31 August 1957, focussing primarily on the community’s political activities during Malaya’s complex path to merdeka (independence). This monograph reveals how seemingly disparate political acts by the Peranakan were in reality bound together by a cosmopolitan sense of identity and belonging as leading figures from the community sought to build an inclusive Malayan nation. 2025-03-07T04:13:47Z 2025-03-07T04:13:47Z 2025-03-06T13:12:11Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99225 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/153819 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/99225/1/9780198917083_Print.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/9780198917113.001.0001 10.1093/9780198917113.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 4bb461ae-a887-4564-b3a7-29e6d7e08318 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 256 Oxford 10BP12_227033 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung ror.org/00yjd3n13 open access |
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