T N Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T N Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | T N |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sites of Asian Interaction
A focus on the sites of Asian interaction enables this volume to shed new light on the growing field of diaspora studies. Research on Asia's many diasporas has enriched the older literature on migration to illuminate the links of kinship, affect, trade, and information that connect locations across Asia, and beyond. But where many recent works on particular diasporas have tended to look inwards - at how distinctive diasporic cultures maintained a…
Afterword
This article examines a long fin de siècle when a Malay world – multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-layered in its forms of authority – was coming under pressure from new forms of empire and, over time, the rise of the nation-state. It reflects on recent scholarly understandings of the Malay world, as showcased in this special issue, in order to illuminate the end of the period in question. It takes a series of journeys – those of Mohamed Ibrah…
Singapore, 1915, and the Birth of the Asian Underground
This paper examines the 1915 Singapore Mutiny within the context of border-crossing patriotic and anarchist movements in the early twentieth century world. It traces some of the continuities and discontinuities with later revolutionary movements in Asia, especially in terms of networks and the sites of their interactions. Through this, it reflects on the meaning of the 'transnational' at this moment in Asian history
Sites of Asian Interaction
Recent work in history, anthropology, and related disciplines has opened up new ways of thinking about inter-Asian connections. The contributors to this issue aim to ground these themes in a concerted focus on particular spaces or sites. We suggest that sites can, in themselves, be constitutive of particular modes of Asian interactions. Much recent literature on Asian transnationalism has focused on Asian elites and on textual modes of interactio…
The British ‘Malayans’
This chapter focuses on ‘British Malaya’ as Sir Frank Swettenham defined it by the end of the 19th century: the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, and the Malay States of the peninsula, where by the 1900s there were families who had seen three or four generations of service. They tended to stand apart from more recent arrivals, and on such distinctions the public debates of the community increasingly centred. But throughout th…
US Ambassador Paul Cellucci
IN TWO NATIONAL CAPITALS, the stories about Paul Cellucci abound. But like the capitals themselves, the conclusions drawn from these anecdotes are often conflicting and contradictory.In Washington, the US ambassador to Ottawa is a valued member of President George W. Bush's team, even if Canada is sometimes viewed by the administration as an irritant, something to be swatted from time-to-time when it becomes impossible to ignore.In Ottawa, howeve…
The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya
Modern Malaya was born in a period of war, insurrection, and monumental social upheaval. Tim Harper's acclaimed 1999 study examines the achievement of independence in 1957, not primarily through the struggle between Imperial Britain and nationalist elites, but through the internal struggles that late colonial rule fostered at all levels of Malayan society. It contains research on the impact of the Second World War in Malaya, the origins and cours…
Asian Values’ and Southeast Asian Histories
At the close of five hundred years of European expansion in Asia, a new Zeitgeist has arisen: ‘Asian values’. The idea has been given wide international exposure, especially by intellectuals in the United States. It has formed the basis of a grand historical narrative in which they can locate themselves in the aftermath of the cold war. The rise of the west, it is argued, was marked by a succession of conflicts: the wars of princes, the wars of n…
Globalism and the Pursuit of Authenticity
This paper examines the role of diaspora in the history of colonial Singapore, the creation of the intellectual culture that embodies both the demands of and the desire for authenticity. It traces the emergence of a polyglot migrant world where communities not only had to find ways to relate to distant homelands, but had to learn to speak to each other for the first time. Through a study of the systems of communication and knowledge that transect…
The Politics of the Forest in Colonial Malaya
The notion that tribal peoples are destructive of the forest environment is not a new one. The political struggles that fostered it are only just beginning to engage the attention of historians. This essay is a preliminary exploration of the experience of the indigenous minorities-the Orang Asli-of peninsular Malaysia during the period of colonial rule. It examines their relationship to the society outside the forest. The politics of the forest i…
New Malays, New Malaysians
Nineteen ninety-five was a watershed year for Malaysia. Commentators on national affairs were almost unanimous in asserting that a long period of national struggle had reached its culmination. A new post-colonial generation was entrenched in the political succession. The economic restructuring of the New Economic Policy (NEP) lay in the past, growth rates soared and Malaysia had graduated as an upper middle income country with a per capita gross …
The Politics of Disease and Disorder in Post-War Malaya
It has become a commonplace of Malayan historiography that the period following the end of the Pacific War witnessed the establishment of a pattern of political life which has persisted in its main features into the present decade. Existing accounts have focused around the restructuring of the British presence in Malaya under a military administration and the introduction of, and opposition to, the Malayan Union scheme in 1946 and the Federal str…
Globalism and the Pursuit of Authenticity
This paper examines the role of diaspora in the history of colonial Singapore, the creation of the intellectual culture that embodies both the demands of and the desire for authenticity. It traces the emergence of a polyglot migrant world where communities not only had to find ways to relate to distant homelands, but had to learn to speak to each other for the first time. Through a study of the systems of communication and knowledge that transect…
Sites of Asian Interaction
Recent work in history, anthropology, and related disciplines has opened up new ways of thinking about inter-Asian connections. The contributors to this issue aim to ground these themes in a concerted focus on particular spaces or sites. We suggest that sites can, in themselves, be constitutive of particular modes of Asian interactions. Much recent literature on Asian transnationalism has focused on Asian elites and on textual modes of interactio…
The Politics of the Forest in Colonial Malaya
The notion that tribal peoples are destructive of the forest environment is not a new one. The political struggles that fostered it are only just beginning to engage the attention of historians. This essay is a preliminary exploration of the experience of the indigenous minorities-the Orang Asli-of peninsular Malaysia during the period of colonial rule. It examines their relationship to the society outside the forest. The politics of the forest i…
Singapore, 1915, and the Birth of the Asian Underground
This paper examines the 1915 Singapore Mutiny within the context of border-crossing patriotic and anarchist movements in the early twentieth century world. It traces some of the continuities and discontinuities with later revolutionary movements in Asia, especially in terms of networks and the sites of their interactions. Through this, it reflects on the meaning of the 'transnational' at this moment in Asian history
Asian Values’ and Southeast Asian Histories
At the close of five hundred years of European expansion in Asia, a new Zeitgeist has arisen: ‘Asian values’. The idea has been given wide international exposure, especially by intellectuals in the United States. It has formed the basis of a grand historical narrative in which they can locate themselves in the aftermath of the cold war. The rise of the west, it is argued, was marked by a succession of conflicts: the wars of princes, the wars of n…
The Politics of Disease and Disorder in Post-War Malaya
It has become a commonplace of Malayan historiography that the period following the end of the Pacific War witnessed the establishment of a pattern of political life which has persisted in its main features into the present decade. Existing accounts have focused around the restructuring of the British presence in Malaya under a military administration and the introduction of, and opposition to, the Malayan Union scheme in 1946 and the Federal str…
The Politics of Disease and Disorder in Post-War Malaya
It has become a commonplace of Malayan historiography that the period following the end of the Pacific War witnessed the establishment of a pattern of political life which has persisted in its main features into the present decade. Existing accounts have focused around the restructuring of the British presence in Malaya under a military administration and the introduction of, and opposition to, the Malayan Union scheme in 1946 and the Federal str…
New Malays, New Malaysians
Nineteen ninety-five was a watershed year for Malaysia. Commentators on national affairs were almost unanimous in asserting that a long period of national struggle had reached its culmination. A new post-colonial generation was entrenched in the political succession. The economic restructuring of the New Economic Policy (NEP) lay in the past, growth rates soared and Malaysia had graduated as an upper middle income country with a per capita gross …
Asian Values’ and Southeast Asian Histories
At the close of five hundred years of European expansion in Asia, a new Zeitgeist has arisen: ‘Asian values’. The idea has been given wide international exposure, especially by intellectuals in the United States. It has formed the basis of a grand historical narrative in which they can locate themselves in the aftermath of the cold war. The rise of the west, it is argued, was marked by a succession of conflicts: the wars of princes, the wars of n…
Globalism and the Pursuit of Authenticity
This paper examines the role of diaspora in the history of colonial Singapore, the creation of the intellectual culture that embodies both the demands of and the desire for authenticity. It traces the emergence of a polyglot migrant world where communities not only had to find ways to relate to distant homelands, but had to learn to speak to each other for the first time. Through a study of the systems of communication and knowledge that transect…
The Politics of the Forest in Colonial Malaya
The notion that tribal peoples are destructive of the forest environment is not a new one. The political struggles that fostered it are only just beginning to engage the attention of historians. This essay is a preliminary exploration of the experience of the indigenous minorities-the Orang Asli-of peninsular Malaysia during the period of colonial rule. It examines their relationship to the society outside the forest. The politics of the forest i…
The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya
Modern Malaya was born in a period of war, insurrection, and monumental social upheaval. Tim Harper's acclaimed 1999 study examines the achievement of independence in 1957, not primarily through the struggle between Imperial Britain and nationalist elites, but through the internal struggles that late colonial rule fostered at all levels of Malayan society. It contains research on the impact of the Second World War in Malaya, the origins and cours…
US Ambassador Paul Cellucci
IN TWO NATIONAL CAPITALS, the stories about Paul Cellucci abound. But like the capitals themselves, the conclusions drawn from these anecdotes are often conflicting and contradictory.In Washington, the US ambassador to Ottawa is a valued member of President George W. Bush's team, even if Canada is sometimes viewed by the administration as an irritant, something to be swatted from time-to-time when it becomes impossible to ignore.In Ottawa, howeve…
The British ‘Malayans’
This chapter focuses on ‘British Malaya’ as Sir Frank Swettenham defined it by the end of the 19th century: the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, and the Malay States of the peninsula, where by the 1900s there were families who had seen three or four generations of service. They tended to stand apart from more recent arrivals, and on such distinctions the public debates of the community increasingly centred. But throughout th…
Sites of Asian Interaction
Recent work in history, anthropology, and related disciplines has opened up new ways of thinking about inter-Asian connections. The contributors to this issue aim to ground these themes in a concerted focus on particular spaces or sites. We suggest that sites can, in themselves, be constitutive of particular modes of Asian interactions. Much recent literature on Asian transnationalism has focused on Asian elites and on textual modes of interactio…
Afterword
This article examines a long fin de siècle when a Malay world – multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-layered in its forms of authority – was coming under pressure from new forms of empire and, over time, the rise of the nation-state. It reflects on recent scholarly understandings of the Malay world, as showcased in this special issue, in order to illuminate the end of the period in question. It takes a series of journeys – those of Mohamed Ibrah…
Singapore, 1915, and the Birth of the Asian Underground
This paper examines the 1915 Singapore Mutiny within the context of border-crossing patriotic and anarchist movements in the early twentieth century world. It traces some of the continuities and discontinuities with later revolutionary movements in Asia, especially in terms of networks and the sites of their interactions. Through this, it reflects on the meaning of the 'transnational' at this moment in Asian history
Sites of Asian Interaction
A focus on the sites of Asian interaction enables this volume to shed new light on the growing field of diaspora studies. Research on Asia's many diasporas has enriched the older literature on migration to illuminate the links of kinship, affect, trade, and information that connect locations across Asia, and beyond. But where many recent works on particular diasporas have tended to look inwards - at how distinctive diasporic cultures maintained a…
History (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Asian Studies and History (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Geography (5 works)