Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used

Addressing questions such as, how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks, this book

Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics The first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues

This book comprises eight papers which deal with various aspects of ethnic Chinese and nation-building in Southeast Asia: ethnic Chinese and the concept of nati