Imagining Malaya, practising multiculturalism : the Malayan consciousness of Singapore Chinese intellectuals in the 1950s

• Main Author: Quah, Sy Ren
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::Chinese; Malayan Consciousness; Multiculturalism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143722
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore in the 1950s had undergone a series of transitions, from 150 years of British colonial rule, followed by Japanese Occupation in the Second World War, to the anti-colonial independence movement, and presented a multifaceted, complex and active state in all social, political and cultural asp...