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, begging 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?
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“… [an] unparalleled command of both scholarly literature and primary sources…”– Prof Bjorn Ahl, Professor and Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne