Abstract
Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940 , by Su Lin Lewis
Highlights
Four themes run through this work: ‘global and regional connections, the city as a cosmopolitan site, the rise of a self-consciously progressive middle class, and the cultivation and prominence of youth in modern civic life’ (p. 2)
In Cities in Motion, Su Lin Lewis manages to produce a history of a dynamic time period in Southeast Asia by studying the vibrant urban sphere of multiethnic port-cities
Rather than focusing on the formation of nation-states or on anti-colonial movements in the region as in many traditional histories, Lewis highlights the rise of cosmopolitan civic societies through a comparative study of Rangoon, Penang, and Bangkok
Summary
Four themes run through this work: ‘global and regional connections, the city as a cosmopolitan site, the rise of a self-consciously progressive middle class, and the cultivation and prominence of youth in modern civic life’ (p. 2). Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940. In Cities in Motion, Su Lin Lewis manages to produce a history of a dynamic time period in Southeast Asia by studying the vibrant urban sphere of multiethnic port-cities.
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