The University Socialist Club And The Contest For Malaya

Author : Edgar Liao
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089644091
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya written by Edgar Liao and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Poh Soo Kai
Publisher : Function 8
ISBN 13 : 9811891176
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fajar Generation written by Poh Soo Kai and published by Function 8. This book was released on with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University Socialist Club (USC) was formed in February 1953. In the 1950s and 1960s the USC and its organ Fajar were a leading voice advocating the cause of the constitutional struggle for freedom and independence in peninsular Malaya and Singapore. In May 1954, the British colonial government arrested the entire editorial board of Fajar and charged them with sedition. In the subsequent high profile trial the Fajar Eight, as the members of the board had become popularly known, were acquitted. The monthly periodical continued to be published until it was banned in February 1963, following the massive wave of political arrests codenamed Operation Cold Store. This collection of essays by leading members of the USC provides a timely documentation and narrative of the personalities who contributed to the struggle for freedom and independence in both countries.

Author : Soo Kai Poh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789833782864
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fajar Generation written by Soo Kai Poh and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The University Socialist Club (USC) was formed in February 1953. In the 1950s and 1960s the USC and its organ Fajar were a leading voice advocating the cause of the constitutional struggle for freedom and independence in peninsular Malaya and Singapore. In May 1954, the British colonial government arrested the entire editorial board of Fajar and charged them with sedition. In the subsequent high profile trial the Fajar Eight, as the members of the board had become popularly known, were acquitted. The monthly periodical continued to be published until it was banned in February 1963, following the massive wave of political arrests codenamed Operation Cold Store.

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Download or read book Fajar written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Poh Soo Kai
Publisher : Function 8 Ltd & Pusat Sejarah Rakyat
ISBN 13 : 9811441596
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living in a Time of Deception written by Poh Soo Kai and published by Function 8 Ltd & Pusat Sejarah Rakyat. This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the historical memoir of Dr Poh Soo Kai, a man of medicine and a founder member of the People’s Action Party.

Author : Michael Tutton
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048532590
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Construction as Depicted in Western Art written by Michael Tutton and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Building has captured the interest of artists from the Roman period to today. The process of construction appears in western art in all its details, trades, and operations. Michael Tutton investigates the representation of building processes and materials through an examination of paintings, illuminated manuscripts, watercolours, prints, drawings and sculpture. Technical terms are explained and detailed interpretations of each work are provided, with insights into the artists' inspiration and themes. Even paintings not wholly or principally devoted to construction sites may give tantalising glimpses of building activity. How do these images convey meaning? How much is imagined; how much is authentic? Fully referenced endnotes, bibliography, and glossary complement the text and captions, informing not only the architectural and construction historian, but also those simply interested in art.

Author : V. Shmidt
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 904854405X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia written by V. Shmidt and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answering the question concerning what driving forces had led public health, welfare policy and education to operate as agents and structures of segregation is one of the core prerequisites for sustainable desegregation and historical justice. This book reexamines the politics of disability in interwar and socialist Czechoslovakia as embedded into nation building, recruited to legitimize diverse forms of structural violence against people with disabilities and ethnic minorities. The authors trace the intersectionality of ethnicity and disability, which proliferated across diverse realms of public life, positioning the continuities and ruptures of interrogating propaganda and racial science during the interwar and post-war periods as establishing and reinforcing the border between a healthy Czech majority and a disabled Roma minority. Writing from their experience, the authors critically revise this border that remains observable but unapproachable until it operates as a part of constructing the authenticity of a nation.

Author : Kah Seng Loh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788776941222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squatters Into Citizens written by Kah Seng Loh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving no visible trace of their historical influence on the social life in the city-state. Fifty years have passed since the great fire at Bukit Ho Swee destroyed the kampong, left 16,000 people homeless, gave rise to a national emergency and led to the first big public housing project, a seminal event in the making of modern Singapore. Loh Kah Seng grew up in one-room rental flats in the HDB estate built after the fire. Drawing on oral history interviews, official records and media reports, he describes daily life in squatter communities and how people coped with the hazard posed by fires. His examination of the catastrophic events of 25 May 1961 and the steps taken by the new government of the People's Action Party in response to the disaster show the immediate consequences of the fire and how relocation to public housing changed people's lives. Through a narrative that is both vivid and subtle, the book explores the nature of memory and probes beneath the hard surfaces of modern Singapore to understand the everyday life of the people who live in the city.

Author : K. Loh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137311673
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral History in Southeast Asia written by K. Loh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.

Author : Marta Boni
Publisher : Transmedia
ISBN 13 : 9789089647566
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Building written by Marta Boni and published by Transmedia. This book was released on 2017 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to modern technology, we are now living in an age of multiplatform fictional worlds, as television, film, the Internet, graphic novels, toys, and more facilitate the creation of diverse yet compact imaginary universes, which are often recognizable as brands and exhibit well-defined identities. This volume, situated at the cutting edge of media theory, explores this phenomenon from both theoretical and practical perspectives, uncovering how the construction of these worlds influences our own determination of values and meaning in contemporary society.