portada The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War (en Inglés)

The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Souchou Yao

Editorial

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

208

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x15.2x1.3 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9788776941918

Categorías

Asia suroriental
Política y gobierno
Historia de asia
Colonialismo e imperialismo
Historia militar

The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War (en Inglés)

Souchou Yao (Autor) · Nordic Institute of Asian Studies · Tapa Blanda

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One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. Souchou Yao tells its story in a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that range across a vast canvas. Throughout the book runs a passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women in colonial Malaya. Here, the effect of counterinsurgency measures are captured by the anthropologist's art of ethnography and cultural analysis. Among the vignettes are an ethnographic encounter with a woman ex-guerrilla, and the author's remembrance of his insurgent-cousin killed in a police ambush. As such, this fascinating study examines the Emergency afresh, and in the process brings into focus issues not normally covered in other accounts: nostalgia and failed revolution, socialist fantasy and ethnic relations, and the moral costs of modern counterinsurgency.