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Asian Connections: Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940
Su Lin Lewis
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Description for Asian Connections: Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940
hardcover. A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era. Series: Asian Connections. Num Pages: 320 pages, 21 b/w illus. 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 648.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals played a pivotal role in shaping civic culture. Moving away from a nationalist reading of the period, Su Lin Lewis explores layers of cross-cultural interaction in various spheres: the urban built environment, civic associations, print media, education, popular culture and the emergence of the modern woman. While the book focuses on Penang, Rangoon and Bangkok ... Read more
In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals played a pivotal role in shaping civic culture. Moving away from a nationalist reading of the period, Su Lin Lewis explores layers of cross-cultural interaction in various spheres: the urban built environment, civic associations, print media, education, popular culture and the emergence of the modern woman. While the book focuses on Penang, Rangoon and Bangkok ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Asian Connections
Condition
New
Weight
648g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107108332
SKU
V9781107108332
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-16
About Su Lin Lewis
Su Lin Lewis is currently Lecturer in Modern Global History at the University of Bristol. She has taught at the University of Birmingham, the University of California, Berkeley, and at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was a Past and Present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London and received her Ph.D. in History from the University ... Read more
Reviews for Asian Connections: Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940
'There are few recent books as deeply anchored in both global and urban history as Su Lin Lewis's exploration of urban life in early-twentieth-century Southeast Asian port cities. ... While Lewis speaks to recent debates in global history, she successfully eschews the now familiar charge that the field's practitioners have veered too far from concrete, empirical studies of the local. ... Read more