Book review of Imagining Malaya: Peranakan Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Belonging at the End of Empire, 1945–1957, by Bernard Z. Keo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 256. £84; and Open Access)

Allan Pang

Book review of Imagining Malaya: Peranakan Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Belonging at the End of Empire, 1945–1957, by Bernard Z. Keo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 256. £84; and Open Access)

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Original language	English
Journal	The English Historical Review
Publication status	Published - 11 Apr 2026

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