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Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore: The Malayan Generation, 1953 - 1963

Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore: The Malayan Generation, 1953 - 1963

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032484241
ISBN13: 9781032484242
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 19 2024
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore's decolonisation movement between 1953 and 1963 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 Chinesespeaking, 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 postcolonial governments to construct new nation-states from plural societies.

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