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Routledge
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The concept of 'Asian Values' has recently been emphasized by East and South East Asian political leaders. These leaders have argued that European political values have exercised an unhealthy hegemony over the international system, not only because of global influence exercised by European ideas during the colonial period, but because of 'Anglo-Saxon' dominance over the world orders that were set... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Colonial Rule and Southeast Asian Responses; Chapter 3 Chapter Three The Impact of Marxism-Leninism on the Anti-Colonial Movements of Southeast Asia, 1900–1940; Chapter 4 Southeast Asian Nationalism Before the Second World War: The Ideological Foundations; Chapter 5 Intellectual Responses to Colonialism Between the World Wars; Chapter 6 The Impact of the Second World War: Pan-Asianism and a New World Order; Chapter 7 Revolution: 1945–1947; Chapter 8 Anti-Revolutionary Nationalism; Chapter 9 The Cold War and the Ideological Foundations of Non-Alignment; Chapter 10 Ideological Crises of the Independence Regimes: Burma, South Vietnam and Laos; Chapter 11 Ideological Crises of the Independence Regimes: Indonesia; Chapter 12 Political Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Singapore and Regional Cooperation; Chapter 13 The Triumphs and Tribulations of Marxism-Leninism in Southeast Asia; Chapter 14 The Persistence and Paradoxes of Anti-Colonial Thinking: The Example of East Timor;
Biography
Clive J. Christie is a Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at the University of Hull. His recent publications include A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Separatism, Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Reader, and Race and Nation: A Documentary Reader. He is currently researching the history of the Vietnam War, focusing upon the question of its international significance during the anti-colonial era.
'This welcome contribution to writing on modern Southeast Asian history is the first book-length, region-wide, comparative historical analysis of modern indigenous political ideas. ... Most importantly, the book takes Southeast Asians' perspectives seriously and accords them a fuller account than is available elsewhere.' - Southeast Asian Studies
'Interesting and valuable' - Contemporary Muslim World
