{"product_id":"9788776941918","title":"The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. Souchou Yao tells its story in a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that range across a vast canvas - from the protection of rubber and tin for a bankrupt post-war Britain, to the British military violence as a heritage of the Victorian Imperial Policing; from collective punishment to population resettlement of more than half a million Malayans. Throughout the book runs a passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women in colonial Malaya. Here, the effect of counter-insurgency measures are captured by the anthropologist's art of ethnography and cultural analysis. Among the vignettes are an ethnographic encounter with a woman ex-guerrilla, and the author's remembrance of his insurgent-cousin killed in a police ambush. As such, this fascinating study examines the Emergency afresh, and in the process brings into focus issues not normally covered in other accounts: nostalgia and failed revolution, socialist fantasy and ethnic relations, and the moral costs of modern counter-insurgency.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nordic Institute of Asian Studies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061010710768,"sku":"9788776941918","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788776941918_p0.jpg?v=1763751412","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788776941918","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}