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Title Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s / [edited by] Susie Protschky and Tom van den Berge
Published Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 214 pages)
Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; volume 310
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 310. 1572-1892
Contents Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s / Susie Protschky -- Modern living in third-world suburbia : Quezon City, 1939- 1976 / Michael D. Pante -- Mediated publicness and Islamic modernity in Indonesia / Julian Millie -- New spiritual movements, scholars, and "Greater India" in Indonesia / Marieke Bloembergen -- Picasso in the tropics : European modern painting in Indonesia, 1920-1957 / Tom van den Berge -- Women, film, and modern Malay identities / Timothy P. Barnard -- Talking sex, making love : P. Moe Nin and intimate modernity in colonial Burma / Chie Ikeya -- Contested modernities and spectres of progress in twentieth- century Siam/Thailand / Janit Feangfu and Rachael V. Harrison -- Modernity and the body : Franco-Vietnamese children in the colonial era and beyond / Christina Firpo
Summary This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ̀€modern' (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban space. The authors examine the conditions and representations of modernity, as shaped by elites and the governed, by actors, artists, novelists and non-fiction writers. Plural encounters in cities, through spiritual communities, art, high and popular culture saw Southeast Asians fashioning modern times in dialogue with global capitalism, consumer culture and second-wave feminism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Civilization
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
Southeast Asia -- Civilization -- 20th century
Subject Southeast Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Protschky, Susie, editor
Berge, Tom van den, 1956- editor.
Barnard, Timothy P., 1963- Women, film, and modern Malay identities
ISBN 9789004372702
9004372709