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In the 1920s and 1930s, the port cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals, and young women and men, played a pivotal role in shaping civic culture. Moving away from a nationalist reading of the period, Su Lin Lewis explores layers of cross-cultural interaction in various spheres: the urban built environment, civic associations, print media, education, and popular culture. While the book focuses on Penang, Rangoon, and Bangkok - three cities born amidst British expansion to the region - it explores connected experiences across Asia and in Asian intellectual enclaves in Europe. Cosmopolitan sensibilities were severely tested in the era of post-colonial nationalism, but are undergoing a resurgence in Southeast Asia's civil society and creative class today.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Cities in Motion
• Subtitle: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940
• Author: Su Lin Lewis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781107108332
• ISBN: 1107108330
• ID: 02950931
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 648 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 161 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. July 2016

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