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Imperialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: colonial forces and British world power post colonial analyses and residues
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Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management and decolonization.
The journey covers perennial themes such as the recruitment, loyalty, and varied impact of foreign-dominated forces. But it also ventures into unchartered waters by highlighting Asian use of ‘colonial’ forces to dominate other Asians. This sends the reader back in time to the fifteenth century Chinese expansion into Yunnan and Vietnam, and forwards to regional tensions in present-day Indonesia, and post-colonial issues in Malaysia and Singapore.
Drawing these strands together, the book shows how colonial armies must be located within wider patterns of demography, and within bigger systems of imperial security and power – American, British, Chinese, Dutch, French, Indonesian, and Japanese - which in turn helped to shape modern Southeast Asia.
Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia will interest scholars working on low intensity conflict, on the interaction between armed forces and society, on comparative imperialism, and on Southeast Asia
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From Baling to Merdeka: 1955-60
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Chin Peng is the longest-serving Secretary-General of a Communist Party, having served continuously from 1947 to present. He led his party into the Malayan Emergency, and latterly to a new peace agreement in 1989.
This book is unique in giving the reader a look at how the historical record about this figure has been constructed. It gives the original papers presented to Chin Peng to stimulate his reponses at oral history sessions, and an annotated version of the resulting sessions. These are completed by editors' chapters which give the context. This allows the reader to see how Chin Peng blended his own ideas with responses to historians, to produce his own quasi-biography, Chin Peng and Ian Ward, Alias Chin Peng: My Side of the Story.
Both editors were involved at all stages, presenting background papers, chairing oral hstory sessions, and compiling the book. They had to ensure not only translation between Chinese and English, but also that name changes between different Chinese dialects, and numerous aliases, were made clear. In 2007 it was translated into Chinese, ISBN 983 9673 97 1
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Communist Policy and Support: 1948-57
No full textBackground paper put to the Secretary-General of the Malayan Communist Party to prime a dialogue session on insurgency in the period 1948-57
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Japanese-occupied Asia from 1941 to 1945: one occupier, many captivities and memories
No full text[Opening] Between 1941 and 1945 there was no generic experience of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan and Taiwan, others to labour on the 'Death Railway' between Thailand and Burma, Some camps had death rates of below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. Some camp guards compounded bad conditions with personal brutality; others acted with restraint. Civilian internees, meanwhile, usually remained in the area where they were detained, in Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, China or the Netherlands East Indies (NEI), only to suffer increasing shortages as the war wore on.
This chapter, and this book, highlight the dangers of reducing these varied experiences, and their place in memory, to one monochrome stereotype
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<i>The Bridge on the River Kwai</i> and <i>King Rat</i>: protest and ex-prisoner of war memory in Britain and Australia
No full text[Opening]. Two important films depicted the prisoner of war (POW) experience under the Japanese in the first two decades after World War II: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and King Rat (1965). Together they portrayed conditions at the biggest concentrations of Western prisoners in the East: at Changi in Singapore, a holding area for 87,000 POWs who passed through the camp at one time or another, of whom 850 died there; and, on the Burma-Thailand Railway, a string of jungle work camps stetching 265 miles, where a total of 61,806 British, Dutch and Australian POWs laboured alongside many more Asians
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Remaking Singapore 1990-2004: from disciplinarian development to bureaucratic proxy democracy
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The Malayan trajectory in Singapore's history
No full textThis chapter looks at the emergence and clash of different trajectories of tendencies in Singapore's history, focussing on the period 1819 to the 1970s. It thus uses a long duration and thematic approach to explain Singapore's eventual merger into Malaysia (September 1963), its split from Malaysia (9 August 1965), and subsequent relaitons with its neighbour
Demography and Domination in Southeast Asia
No full textThis chapter tackles the demographic and comparative deficit [of the reader] by giving a broad background to Southeast Asian populations, and to colonial and imperial forces in Southeast Asia, with a focus on the period 1800-2000. No doubt the level of sophistication would scandalise a statistician. But the broad brush picture will be sound, and that is the one that interests us
Imperial Systems of Power, Colonial Forces, and the Making of Modern Southeast Asia
No full textWhy do colonial subjects choose to enlist and to court death under the command of officers who come from thousands of miles away? Under what conditions do they stay loyal? When, why and with what results do they revolt?
Questions such as these can be answered only with the greatest diffculuty. In part this is because comparative work on colonial forces is rare, restricted to a few short introductions to edited volumes, whose collections of articles at first seem to invite contrast, rather than comparison. This is compounded by a second problem: the careless use of concepts. the terms colonial armies, colonialism and imperialism have been employed so loosely as to spread confusion. For this reason, we must begin by examining the terminology surrounding "colonial armies" and what we call "imperial systems of power"
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The Malayan Emergency
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Chin Peng is the longest-serving Secretary-General of a Communist Party, having served continuously from 1947 to present. He led his party into the Malayan Emergency, and latterly to a new peace agreement in 1989.
This book is unique in giving the reader a look at how the historical record about this figure has been constructed. It gives the original papers presented to Chin Peng to stimulate his reponses at oral history sessions, and an annotated version of the resulting sessions. These are completed by editors' chapters which give the context. This allows the reader to see how Chin Peng blended his own ideas with responses to historians, to produce his own quasi-biography, Chin Peng and Ian Ward, Alias Chin Peng: My Side of the Story.
Both editors were involved at all stages, presenting background papers, chairing oral hstory sessions, and compiling the book. They had to ensure not only translation between Chinese and English, but also that name changes between different Chinese dialects, and numerous aliases, were made clear. In 2007 it was translated into Chinese, ISBN 983 9673 97 1
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