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Much of what has been written on Singapore's wartime past is set against the Japanese invasion and occupation of the island. In Diaspora at War: The Chinese of Singapore between Empire and Nation 1937 - 1945, Ernest Koh maps a war history that is far wider in geographical and temporal scope. From the skies over Western Europe and the Mediterranean to the Burma Road, from the Atlantic Ocean to the cities of China, individuals and small groups of Chinese from the British colony worked, fought, and flew in a variety of fighting and labour units. Drawing from oral history accounts and archival sources, Koh recovers a rich and insightful historical reality that has long been submerged under the weight of a teleological national narrative.
Price: $146.00
Pages: 172
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Chinese Overseas
Publication Date:
25 April 2013
ISBN: 9789004174764
Format: Hardcover
"Told vividly through the use of oral history interviews and family history accounts, as well as archival material, Diaspora at War adds a new dimension that has been missing from the military history of World War II. Through penetrating analysis and skillful probing of individual testimony, the author explains the motives of men who went to war before the war came to them."
– Kevin Blackburn, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
"Diaspora at War opens up a new approach at looking at the Chinese in Malaya during the war. This conceptualization of three fronts - China, empire and pacific - is interesting and poses significant advancement in looking at the Chinese diasporas."
– Ho Khai Leong, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia.
"...an important contribution to the field." "...a meaningful offering for the intellectual and socio-political landscape of Singapore."
– Huang Jianli, National University of Singapore, in Asian Studies Review 39.1 (2015), p. 158-177.
– Kevin Blackburn, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
"Diaspora at War opens up a new approach at looking at the Chinese in Malaya during the war. This conceptualization of three fronts - China, empire and pacific - is interesting and poses significant advancement in looking at the Chinese diasporas."
– Ho Khai Leong, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia.
"...an important contribution to the field." "...a meaningful offering for the intellectual and socio-political landscape of Singapore."
– Huang Jianli, National University of Singapore, in Asian Studies Review 39.1 (2015), p. 158-177.
Ernest Koh, Ph.D (2007), Monash University, is Senior Lecturer in History at Monash University. He is the author of Singapore Stories: Language, Class, and the Chinese of Singapore (Cambria: 2010), and co-editor of Oral History and Memory in Southeast Asia (PalgraveMacmillan: 2013).