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Asian Forms of the Nation

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Asian nation-state development
Bangsa Malaysia
Buddhist Karens
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Chinese Community
Christian Karens
comparative nationalism
cultural geography analysis
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
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ethnic minority politics
Hang Tuah
Hindu Nationalism
Jia Pingwa
Karen Leaders
Liu Zaifu
Malay Nationalism
national identity discourse
Nep Era
Nguyen Ai Quoc
Nguyen Van Vinh
non-Muslim Bumiputera
Onn Jaafar
Pham Quynh
Post-colonial Subject
postcolonial identity formation
Quoc Ngu
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
RSS
Southeast Asian studies
State Nationalism
Tapan Raychaudhuri
United Malaysian Nation
Yale University Southeast Asia Studies

Product details

  • ISBN 9780700704422
  • Weight: 520g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Sep 1996
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The general tendency among theorists in nationalism and national identity has been to assume that the modernization process in Asia and Africa is a kind of distorted reflection of a Western precedent; Asian forms of the nation have rarely been seen as independent, alternative models. Among today's leading theoreticians, there is a growing tendency to take Asia seriously, and to include Asian examples in the general discussion. The aim of the present collection is to build on and reinforce this tendency. It does not postulate any specifically Asian form of the nation, as opposed to a Western one. Rather, it seeks to demonstrate that in Asia, as well as in Europe, each nation forms a unique amalgam which can be compared fruitfully with others. History, culture and geography have posed various kinds of limits to what can be imagined (as Benedict Anderson puts it). The relationship between geographical space and national construction is explored in depth here.