Modern times in southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s /

This book reveals how everyday experiences of being 'modern' (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to t...

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Other Authors: Protschky, Susie (Editor), Berge, Tom van den, 1956- (Editor), Barnard, Timothy P., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 310.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s / Susie Protschky
  • Modern living in third-world suburbia : Quezon City, 1939-1976 / Michael D. Pante
  • Mediated publicness and Islamic modernity in Indonesia / Julian Millie
  • New spiritual movements, scholars, and "Greater India" in Indonesia / Marieke Bloembergen
  • Picasso in the tropics : European modern painting in Indonesia, 1920-1957 / Tom van den Berge
  • Women, film, and modern Malay identities / Timothy P. Barnard
  • Talking sex, making love : P. Moe Nin and intimate modernity in colonial Burma / Chie Ikeya
  • Contested modernities and spectres of progress in twentieth-century Siam/Thailand / Janit Feangfu and Rachael V. Harrison
  • Modernity and the body : Franco-Vietnamese children in the colonial era and beyond / Christina Firpo.