This book comprises eight papers which deal with various aspects of ethnic Chinese and nation-building in Southeast Asia: ethnic Chinese and the concept of nati

Addressing questions such as, how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks, this book

Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countr

Ethnic/racial relations have been a perennial theme in Southeast Asian studies. Current events have highlighted the tensions among ethnic groups and the need to

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.