| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph series ; no. 133 |
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Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 133.
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| Contents |
On empire: a sleek and orderly retreat -- On communism: new person in a new era -- On violence: imperial policing and British counter-insurgency -- On revolutionary war: making peasants into revolutionaries -- On 'hearts and minds"-I: 'a warm and fuzzy war' -- On 'hearts and minds'-II: new villages and 'war by philanthropy' -- On the Malayan left: the MCP and the 'national question' -- On junglecraft: Britishness and the 'flaming East' -- On writing people's history: home-grown revolution |
| Summary |
"One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. Souchou Yao tells its story in a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that range across a vast canvas. Throughout the book runs a passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women in colonial Malaya. Here, the effect of counterinsurgency measures are captured by the anthropologist's art of ethnography and cultural analysis. Among the vignettes are an ethnographic encounter with a woman ex-guerrilla, and the author's remembrance of his insurgent-cousin killed in a police ambush. As such, this fascinating study examines the Emergency afresh, and in the process brings into focus issues not normally covered in other accounts: nostalgia and failed revolution, socialist fantasy and ethnic relations, and the moral costs of modern counterinsurgency." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index |
| Subject |
Counterinsurgency -- Malaysia -- History -- 20th century
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Guerrilla warfare.
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guerrilla warfare.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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Counterinsurgency
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| SUBJECT |
Malaya -- History -- Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080083
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Malaysia -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Malaya
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Malaysia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788776946517 |
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8776946517 |
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