Nanyang: Essays on Heritage by Wang Gungwu HARDBACK 9789814786515

Nanyang: Essays on Heritage\nby Wang Gungwu\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Wang Gungwu\nTitle: Nanyang: Essays on Heritage\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9789814786515\nISBN-10: 9814786519\nRRP: \u00A329.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the st.