Imagining Malaya - Peranakan Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Belonging at the End of Empire, 1945–1957

A political history of Malaysia that prompts reconsideration of the country's path to independence and nationhood, examining the political trajectory of the Peranakan Chinese-a cosmopolitan minority community emerging from intermarriage between ethnic Chinese and ethnic Malays with their own unique culture-in the immediate aftermath of WWII.