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Nietzsche, Heidegger and Colonialism This text argues that Nietzsche’s idea of invalid policy that is believed to be valid and Heidegger’s concept of doubt as the reason for a rep- resentation are essentially the same idea. Using this insight, the text investigates vignettes from colonial occupation in Southeast Asia and its protest occupations to contend that untruth, covered in camouflages of constancy and morality, has been a powerful force in Asian history. The Nietzschean inflections applied here include Superhumanity, the eternal return of trauma, the critiques of morality, and the moralisation of guilt. Many ideas from the Heideggerian canon are used, including the struggle for individual validity amidst the debasement and imbalance of Being. Concepts such as thrownness, finitude and the remnant cultural power of Christianity, are also deployed in an exposé of colonial practices. The book gives detailed treatment to post-colonial Malaya (1963), Japanese- occupied Hong Kong (1941–1945), and the tussle with communism in Cold War Singapore and Malaya, as well as the question of Kuomintang KMT validity in Hong Kong (1945–1949) and British Malaya (1950– 1953). The book explains the struggles for identity in the Hong Kong protest movement (2014–2020) by showing how economic distortion caused by landlordism has been covered by aspirations for freedom. R.B.E. Price is a lecturer in law in the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia. Routledge Studies in Modern History Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland, 1918-1923 Thomas Earls FitzGerald Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906 William L. Gibson The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century An Introduction Edited by Graciela Iglesias-Rogers Nietzsche, Heidegger and Colonialism Occupying South East Asia R.B.E. 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Price First published 2021 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 R.B.E. Price The right of R.B.E. Price to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-54787-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-54794-3 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-09061-8 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by SPi Global, India For my nephew, Harry Price Contents List of abbreviations viii Glossary ix 1 Openings 1 2 Heidegger and Nietzsche 21 3 Statues: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1963) 33 4 Judging Occupied Streets, Hong Kong (2014–2018) 41 5 Representation in “Captured” Japanese Hong Kong (1941–1945) 54 6 Dasein of the Chrysanthemum Collaborators, Hong Kong (1941–1944) 67 7 Fading Validity: KMT Nationalism in Hong Kong (1946–1950) 81 8 Representing Christendom: Singapore’s Maria Hertogh Riots (1950) 95 9 The Commission of Inquiry into the 1950 Singapore Riots (1951) 104 10 The KMT in British Malaya: Failing Futurism (1950–1953) 111 11 Lee’s Favourite Communist, Singapore (1956–1969) 121 12 The Recurrence in British Interventions, Singapore (1962–1965) 136 13 Landlordism and Democracy in Modern Hong Kong (2019–2020) 149 14 Closings 172 Index 179 Abbreviations BAD Base Activity Diary BS Barisan Sosialis CCG chinese communist government CCP Chinese Communist Party CIA Central Intelligence Agency I.L. Inland Lot J.D. Japanese Deed HMG Her Majesty’s Government KMT Kuomintang KMTRC Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee LEGCO Legislative Council (Hong Kong) MCP Malayan Communist Party MP Member of Parliament MLRA Malayan Races’ Liberation Army NDRA National Democratic Reconstruction Committee PAP People’s Action Party REP Register of Enemy Properties (Japanese Occupied Hong Kong) UMNO United Malays National Organisation Glossary MERDEKA Independence PADANG Large, central, flat area set-aside for ceremonial purposes TUNKU Prime Minister (Malaysia)
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