The Fiction of Colonial Malaya
Author : Mohamad Rashidi Pakri
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
The Long Day Wanes
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393309430
Book Description
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
Modern Subjects/colonial Texts
Author : Philip Holden
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Holden reveals how the experience as a colonial administrator made Clifford suspicious of the economic expediency which often underlies the rhetoric of mission and duty."--BOOK JACKET.
The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya
Author : Anthony Milner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521003568
Book Description
This innovative book is a pioneering study of political debate in an important Southeast Asian society. Now available in paperback it re-examines the formative period in Malay nationalism and argues against using nationalism as the paradigm of analysis.'This magnificent book is certainly essential reading for Malaysianists and Malaysians interested in the intrigues and mystique of Malay politics, in the past and at present.' Shamsul, A.B., Asian Studies Review'The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya is a model of its kind and will undoubtedly become a landmark in Malaysian studies and an example to those in other fields. It is a stylish and highly readable essay in cultural history.' William R Roff, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Post-colonial Chinese Literatures In Singapore And Malaysia
Author : Yoon Wah Wong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9814518328
Book Description
This is the first book to present in English a history of post-colonial and diasporic Chinese literatures in Singapore and Malaysia. The 12 essays collected in it provide an in-depth study of the emergence of the new Chinese literatures by looking at the origins, the themes, the major authors and their works, and how the creativity is closely connected with the experience of immigration and colonialization and the challenge of the post-colonial world. In examining a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the cultures of diasporic Chinese and post-colonial society, the author shows that each of the new literatures has its own traditions which reflect local social, political and cultural history. The essays also show that the literature of Singapore or Malaysia has a tradition of its own, and writers of world class. Besides the Chinese literary tradition, a native literary tradition has been created successfully.
The Weight of Our Sky
Author : Hanna Alkaf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534426094
Book Description
Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.
The Night Tiger
Author : Yangsze Choo
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250175445
Book Description
The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.” —Kirkus (starred review) An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever. As the days tick relentlessly by, a series of unexplained deaths racks the district, along with whispers of men who turn into tigers. Ji Lin and Ren’s increasingly dangerous paths crisscross through lush plantations, hospital storage rooms, and ghostly dreamscapes. Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger pulls us into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love. But anchoring this dazzling, propulsive novel is the intimate coming-of-age of a child and a young woman, each searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible. "A work of incredible beauty... Astoundingly captivating and striking... A transcendent story of courage and connection." —Booklist (starred review)
Malabar to Malaya
Author : Ravindran Raghavan
Publisher : Ravindran Raghavan
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1729104983
Book Description
Book description: The British rubber plantations in Malaya (now Malaysia) created a huge migration of indentured labour from India. My grandpa joined the wave to start a spice business and lost it all. That plunged my generation below the poverty line!I I was born in a plantation house (not a hospital) and my birth certificate was "processed" in a police station. That is how I arrived earth in 1965. Grew up in the rubber plantation, soon to become unpaid underaged labour helping my parents tap rubber trees starting at 04:30 in the morning amongst the mosquitoes and snakes while smacking into spider webs between the trees.Our meals starts on a perfect dining table after pay day and dwindles into lack of food by end of the month. The vicious cycle seems to never end year after year. In the years to come I became a Chemical Engineer and that changed this "fate" by placing food on our table consistently. As I set sail on my career, my life took various positive turns that brought me to being a Company Director occasionally signing cheques with six digits in them. This book shares a part my journey that took me through pain, gain, glory and gratification. Author: Author is a 53 yeard old, third generation Malaysian of Indian descent. Graduated with a honours Degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Malaya and held various management positions in multinationals. Currently working as General Manager in the Dubai Head Office of a UK-based shipping company. Fluent in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Tamil and Malayalam.
Out in the Midday Sun
Author : Margaret Shennan
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9814625329
Book Description
The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as fortune-seekers to exploit Asian trade shipped through Penang and Singapore. They found a mature Asian culture in a land of palm-fringed shores and primeval jungle. Like modern Romans, they built townships, defences, communications and hill stations, they spurred a rivalry between the fledgling commercial centres of Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur, and they superimposed their law and established an idiosyncratic political system. They also developed the tin and rubber of the Malay States, encouraging Chinese and Indian immigrants by their open-door policy. The outcome was a vibrant multi-racial society – the most cosmopolitan in the East.
British Malaya
Author : Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Federated Malay States
ISBN :
