作者：Rohan B. E. Price
出版社：City University of Hong Kong Press
出版年份：2023
語言：English
ISBN：9789629374495
 
Are there ethics justifying anti-colonial violence?

How and why did the violence and visions of nationalist movements become incorporated by colonial and neo-colonial rule?

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948–1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya by forcing its colonial administration to invent Malay nationalism and pursue ameliorative social policy among the Chinese diaspora community in a manner clearly derived from the Party’s platform. Yet this was not the same as giving the country economic emancipation from the expectations of neo-colonial rule.

Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology entertains no warm colonial memories of the cold war years. Confirming Price’s reputation as a plain speaking critic of Empire apologia, this book asks how colonial ideology was considered to be beneath Europe yet desperately needed by it. He faces down nostalgic communities defending an outdated view that “might was right” in South East Asia and that communism failed to contribute to the world that came to be. Using an Althusserian assumption, the book begs the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this?

“… A major contribution to the literature.”

– Prof Kerry Brown,
Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London
“… [an] unparalleled command of both scholarly literature and primary sources…”

– Prof Björn Ahl,
Professor and Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne
 
作者簡介；
 
Rohan B. E. Price is a Lecturer at the School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia where he teaches the law of trusts to support his history writing. He leads a brash generation of historians demanding a clear line of view on Asia’s present politics. His PhD research dealt with how decolonisation and Chinese nationalism were contemplated in colonial property law. He has written celebrated titles on law and policy issues in modern China and Hong Kong. His works of history have been called “one of a kind”, an “essential reminder”, and “redrawing the map”. He has been a visiting professor in several universities in Mainland China. His works originate in the archives of London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Weihai. He maintains a holiday-maker’s interest in where his next book will be banned. His next book, titled On Occupation, locates the ontology developed by Heidegger in a range of late colonial contexts.
 
目錄：
 
Chapter 1       Violence and Emancipation
Chapter 2       Ideology
Chapter 3       Compensation
Chapter 4       Laissez-faire
Chapter 5       Silencing and Renouncing the Heroic
Chapter 6       Concluding Remarks