Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940
by
Su Lin Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
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 played...