... some of the racist practices of the apartheid regime, and eventually claim the dubious privilege of acceptance as ‘honorary whites’. If Lady Precious Stream was staged at extreme historical moments marked by warfare, nation-building and racial oppression, the play has also enjoyed...

...This Introduction establishes the historical and theoretical framework for this study. It argues that scholarship on Anglophone Malaysian literature has tended towards a limited focus on race and nation-building, thus ignoring other quietist, intangible dimensions that are equally, if not more...

...The fifth chapter discusses how the Singaporean Chinese director Yi Shui created a Malayanised Chinese-language cinema during the 1950s and ’60s and offers a retrospective of the way people in Malaya and Singapore framed their nation-building discourse in relation to anti-colonialism and anti...

... actually frames his storytelling about national crisis and salvation in terms borrowed from traditional Chinese pathology and river control terminology. Bluntschli Johann Kaspar citizenship hygiene Liang Qichao nation building opium use public health body state Chinese medicine Travels of Lao Can...

...This chapter discusses an analysis of the nation building on the part of the CCP state and intellectuals after 1949. It is noted that the CCP state has made various efforts to assimilate national minorities into the Chinese nation, but it has not been clear as to what kind of nation-state it wants...

...This chapter discusses and examines the various possibilities of a future national identity. Nation building can be based on nationalist principles, such as cultural, ethnic, historical, political, or liberalist nationalist principles. Although liberal nationalism seems most appealing to most...

...This chapter discusses the crucial role of the state and professional, critical, and organic intellectuals in nation building and national identity formation. In order to understand the direction in which a nation is heading, an understanding of the intellectual's roles and the blurring of those...

... to the project of nation building on both sides of the Sino-American encounter. He reminds us of some of the ways in which women are marked, individually and as a cohort, as bearers of culture and keepers of tradition. He also reminds us that American women who went abroad often encountered those who had already...