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Cracks On a Cauldron of Cantons: The Chinese Question in Southeast Asia
- Category: Women in Action 2009-3
- Author: Nina Somera
- Year: 2009
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Review
The possibility of forming national communities had been initially welcomed after centuries of living under colonial rule. But contrary to its promise of inverting the restrictive and oppressive mechanisms that the colonial powers had instituted, the new national communities instead have perpetrated the same principles of inclusion and exclusion, resulting in the communities’ both cohesion and fragility.