Research Catalog

Title

Sino-Malay encounters : only connect! / Wang Gungwu.

Author

Wang, Gungwu.

Publication

Singapore : Times Academic Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

vi, 298 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Gungwu (National U. of Singapore) explores encounters between the peoples of the China coasts and the Malay archipelago during the period of British Malaya and the independent Federation of Malaysia. He has added seven new essays to augment 11 that appeared in Community and Nation (1992), now out of print. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Alternative Title

Only connect!, Sinno-Malay encounters

Subject

• Malays (Asian people)
• Chinese > Malaysia > History
• Chinese
• International relations
• Chinesen
• Geschichte
• Malaien
• Malaysia > Relations > China
• China > Relations > Malaysia
• China
• Malaysia
• Malaysia
• Chinesen
• Malaien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Opening of Relations between China and Malacca (1403-1405) -- The First Three Rulers of Malacca -- The Melayu in Hai-Kuo Wen-Chien Lu -- Malayan Nationalism -- Malaysia: Contending Elites -- Reflections on Malaysian Elites -- Chinese Politics in Malaya -- Introduction to Malaysia: A Survey -- The Malaysian Split -- Political Change in Malaysia -- Malay Politics and Colonialism -- Two Kinds of Ethnic Transformations -- Continuities in Island Southeast Asia -- Migration Patterns in History: Malaysia and the Region -- Traditional Leadership in a New Nation: The Chinese in Malaya and Singapore -- Early Southeast Asia: Political Fragmentation and Cultural Change -- A Short Introduction to Chinese Writing in Malaya -- "Are Indonesian Chinese Unique?": Some Observations.

ISBN

• 9812101667
• 9789812101662

LCCN

2001469944

OCLC

• ocm49823329
• 49823329
• SCSB-14460008

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library