LEADER 02480 am 2200409 n 450 001 9910557199403321 005 20220325 010 $a2-940600-40-6 024 7 $a10.4000/books.iheid.8895 035 $a(CKB)4100000012842771 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-iheid-8895 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/85486 035 $a(PPN)262738422 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012842771 100 $a20220405j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Straits Chinese Between Empires $eNationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Colonial Malaya, c.1890-1920 /$fChristian Jones 210 $aGeneva $cGraduate Institute Publications$d2022 225 1 $aeCahiers de l?Institut 330 $aThis ePaper investigates the Straits Chinese community and their positioning relative to the British Empire and the Chinese Empire around 1900. It studies their responses to and interactions with the transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The Straits Chinese are framed as a cosmopolitan community in a cosmopolitan city who played an important role in the reconfiguration of imperial citizenship and the deterritorialisation of China. Through their own and others? adoption of racial discourses, they found themselves in a double bind, not quite Chinese and not quite British. This shaped their encounter with early Chinese nationalism. Consequently, this paper disrupts the teleology of decolonisation and demonstrates how the transformations taking place in the international system in the early twentieth century relegated certain communities to the margins by virtue of their ?in-between? position. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master?s dissertations. 517 $aStraits Chinese Between Empires 606 $aAsian history$2bicssc 610 $aforeign relations 610 $anationalism 610 $aState | Nation 610 $astate construction 615 7$aAsian history 700 $aJones$b Christian$01312468 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557199403321 996 $aThe Straits Chinese Between Empires$93030857 997 $aUNINA