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The concept of ‘Malaya’ continues to exert a powerful draw on our imagination, steeped in exotism and Orientalist reductions. Even decades after the end of the colonial period, it casts a long shadow over modern-day Malaysia and the rest of maritime Southeast Asia.
The edited volume, 
Revisiting Malaya, takes regional Cold War divisions and historical links and fractures into consideration, seeking to understand the power of thoughts and practices in anticolonial independence movements in Malaya and more broadly the Malay World or Nusantara – in which different colonised bodies sought to unify, integrate and negotiate their struggles to expel colonialism. This period witnessed the revolutionary dynamics of Third World nations in resisting colonialism, yet it also marked the construction of new geographical and national discourse that generated conflicts and misunderstandings until today. ....

Ying Xin , Jawa Barat , Jawa Timur , Brunei Darussalam , Rommela Curaming , Anthony Reid , Malaysia Institute , University Of Oxford , History Department , Hertford College , Chinese Studies Department , University Of Brunei Darussalam , History International Studies Programme , Revisiting Malaya , Cold War , Malay World , Third World , Uncovering Historical , Political Thoughts , Professor Anthony , Senior Assistant Professor , International Studies Programme , Thum Ping Tjin , Managing Director , New Naratif , Visiting Fellow ,