Challenging the Malayan Nationhood: Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese
New Books in Chinese Studies
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What Are Some of the Most Interesting Findings in the Archives?
One of my favorite things to do in the archive is look at the little minutes that are handwritten, so the marginality around the archival record itself. oftentimes you would see colonial officials' rights serve quite personal insights into their own daily lives or sort of their thoughts on particular leaders. One of my favorite stories that I came across while researching the Millennium Emergency as part of the political context and background of all these things happening was a bunch of dentists used dental party to fix up the broken nose of Queen Elizabeth.
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