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Hail, Penang!

George Bilainkin

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Description:In the late 1920s British colonial power in Malaya appeared at its zenith. Run by a small political and commercial elite on behalf of metropolitan interests, Malaya was the most profitable of all Britains possessions and seemed likely to remain that way. Into this scene came a young journalist, George Bilainkin witty, confident, acerbic and iconoclastic appointed by chance as editor of Penangs lively English-language newspaper The Straits Echo in 1929. Through a series of engaging sketches and reflections he discloses a wonderfully compelling portrait of Penang, its personalities and its environs. Looking beyond the complacent colonial façade Bilainkin grapples directly and indirectly with a wide range of topics that have strikingly modern the absurdities of social snobbery; the position of women in society; and, above all, the fraught nature of race relations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hail, Penang!. To get started finding Hail, Penang!, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 271

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: ARECA Books

Release: 2010

ISBN: 9675719028

Description: In the late 1920s British colonial power in Malaya appeared at its zenith. Run by a small political and commercial elite on behalf of metropolitan interests, Malaya was the most profitable of all Britains possessions and seemed likely to remain that way. Into this scene came a young journalist, George Bilainkin witty, confident, acerbic and iconoclastic appointed by chance as editor of Penangs lively English-language newspaper The Straits Echo in 1929. Through a series of engaging sketches and reflections he discloses a wonderfully compelling portrait of Penang, its personalities and its environs. Looking beyond the complacent colonial façade Bilainkin grapples directly and indirectly with a wide range of topics that have strikingly modern the absurdities of social snobbery; the position of women in society; and, above all, the fraught nature of race relations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hail, Penang!. To get started finding Hail, Penang!, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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