Challenging the Malayan Nationhood: Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The National Narrative in Malaysian History
I think one of the key interventions I try to make is to challenge the kind of idea of the national narrative that tends to dominate, not just in Malaysia and Singapore. The fact that there was this kind of social contract that had been made that entrenched special privileges for one community in exchange for other communities. Like in the case of the pranican, but there are only really one part of the story. It's worth critiquing these kinds of ideas because they tend to be manufactured versions of the past,.
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