Malaysia and the cold war era

From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension, and violence in what became Malaysia as a result of the 1963 Federation, upheavals included the Malayan Emergency of 1948-60, the independence of Malaya in 1957, Konf...

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Main Author: Ooi, Keat Gin 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Series:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • 'Big' picture and 'small' picture: an introductory essay
  • Between left and right: Chinese politics in Malaya/Malaysia, 1920s-1990s
  • Kuomintang man behind special force: Wu Tiecheng and Force 136, 1942-1945
  • Anti-Japanese movement to Haadyai Peace Accord: the mobilization of Malayan women in the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), 1930-1989
  • From Malayan Union to Malayan Emergency: nationalists' resistance and colonial reaction in post-war Malaya, 1946-1948
  • Malaysia, the Cold War and beyond
  • The Philippines' claim over Sabah from the Cold War perspective
  • The regression of Malaysian socioeconomic policy: rise of state discrimination in the Cold War era, 1970s-1980s
  • Malaysia and the Cold War: the longue duree approach.