Violence and emancipation in colonial ideology : Hong Kong and British Malaya /

Are there ethics justifying anti-colonial violence? How and why did the violence and visions of nationalist movements become incorporated by colonial and neo-colonial rule? Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Price, Rohan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kowloon, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong Press, [2019]
Temas:
Malayan Communist Party > History.
Malayan Communist Party
1948-1960
British colonies
Colonies > Administration
Politics and government
Malaya > Politics and government.
Great Britain > Colonies > Asia > Administration.
Malaya > History > Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Asie > Administration.
Malaisie occidentale > Histoire > 1948-1960 (État d'urgence)
Asia
Malaya
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Endorsements
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Violence and Emancipation
  • Introduction
  • How Emancipation and Violence Continue to Work
  • Colonial Ideology and its Elements
  • Emancipation
  • Violence
  • The Malay Moment
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 Ideology
  • Introduction
  • Colonial Ideology and its Uses of Comparison
  • Communism and the Modern
  • Burma and Malaya
  • The CCP and the MCP
  • Malayan Communism and its Claim to Objectivity
  • The MCP Platform
  • Use of the Subjective in Colonial Ideology
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Compensation
  • Introduction
  • Compensating Acceptable Nationalism
  • Malaya and Hong Kong
  • Purchasing the Peace
  • The Compensation Decisions
  • Singapore and the Federation of Malaya
  • Oil and Decolonisation: North Borneo and Sarawak
  • Hong Kong
  • Reasons for the Compensation Decisions
  • Immunising Malaya and Singapore from Communism
  • International Arbitrariness
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Laissez-faire
  • Introduction
  • Recolonising by Letting Go
  • A Little History
  • An Ideology of Doing Nothing
  • Strickland's Thesis
  • Detecting Ideology in Moratorium Exemptions
  • Lo's Advice to Strickland
  • Non-compensation of the Nationalist Factory Sector
  • The Chiens
  • The Political Studies Clique, China Paint, and Chiap Hua
  • The Po Shing: Nationalists or British?
  • Matheson's Reasons
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Silencing and Renouncing the Heroic
  • Introduction
  • Mock Radicals
  • The Central Problems
  • Exposure via Benjamin
  • Observations of Centrist Intellectualism
  • The Everyman Sympathy Trope
  • Leftist Settler Syndrome
  • Keeping Colonial People Small
  • Communists as Losers
  • Colonial Ideology: Present and Past
  • Lam Swee and Deflection
  • Propaganda
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter Conclusions
  • Ideology
  • The Future?
  • Notes
  • References

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