Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on the Language, Spelling and Pagination of Quotations
- 1 Introduction: Booking Southeast Asia: The History of an Idea
- 2 Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, with a Nightmare
- 3 The New Language-Game of Modern Colonial Capitalism
- 4 Raffles’ Java as Museum
- 5 Dressing the Cannibal: John Anderson’s Sumatra as Market
- 6 Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat’s Borneo as ‘The Den of Pirates’
- 7 Crawfurd’s Burma as the Torpid ‘Land of Tyranny’
- 8 Bricolage, Power and How a Region Was Discursively Constructed
- Appendix A The full Transcript of the Article by William Cobbett on the Subject of the British Invasion of Java
- Appendix B Keeping an eye on the Javanese: Raffles’ ‘Regulations of 1814 for the More Effectual Administration of Justice in the Provincial Courts of Java'
- Appendix C James Brooke’s Detractors in the British Parliament and the Aborigines’ Protection Society
- Appendix D The clash between the HMS Dido and the Ships of the Rajah of Riao: A Case of Mistaken Identity and Misappropriation of the Signifier ‘Pirate’
- Appendix E The Construction of the Native other in the Writings of Hugh Clifford, British Colonial Resident to Pahang
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix E - The Construction of the Native other in the Writings of Hugh Clifford, British Colonial Resident to Pahang
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on the Language, Spelling and Pagination of Quotations
- 1 Introduction: Booking Southeast Asia: The History of an Idea
- 2 Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, with a Nightmare
- 3 The New Language-Game of Modern Colonial Capitalism
- 4 Raffles’ Java as Museum
- 5 Dressing the Cannibal: John Anderson’s Sumatra as Market
- 6 Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat’s Borneo as ‘The Den of Pirates’
- 7 Crawfurd’s Burma as the Torpid ‘Land of Tyranny’
- 8 Bricolage, Power and How a Region Was Discursively Constructed
- Appendix A The full Transcript of the Article by William Cobbett on the Subject of the British Invasion of Java
- Appendix B Keeping an eye on the Javanese: Raffles’ ‘Regulations of 1814 for the More Effectual Administration of Justice in the Provincial Courts of Java'
- Appendix C James Brooke’s Detractors in the British Parliament and the Aborigines’ Protection Society
- Appendix D The clash between the HMS Dido and the Ships of the Rajah of Riao: A Case of Mistaken Identity and Misappropriation of the Signifier ‘Pirate’
- Appendix E The Construction of the Native other in the Writings of Hugh Clifford, British Colonial Resident to Pahang
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Hugh Charles Clifford was the first British colonial agent, and later Resident, attached to the Kingdom of Pahang in the Malay Peninsula. Both during and after his posting to Pahang he penned numerous short stories about Pahang and its people. By the time he was sent to Pahang, the era of the East India Company was over, and colonial intervention in Malay affairs was managed by the colonial government based in India and London. Clifford's stories were compiled in two edited volumes, In a Corner of Asia (1899) and The Further Side of Silence (1916), and in the novel Saleh: A Prince of Malaya (1926). He also wrote other works that covered topics and themes related to his own concerns as colonial resident and as an observer of Malay society then, including Malayan Monochromes, The Downfall of the Gods, Further India and Studies in Brown Humanity. In his writings, Clifford's interests as both colonial functionary and amateur scholar-observer are evident. As the first colonial functionary who was sent to Pahang to map out the territory and then to establish the first British colonial foothold in the kingdom (at the age of 20), Clifford later came to be regarded as the foremost British expert on all matters related to Pahang and its people, culture and history. A summary of the tales that appeared in the edited volumes In a Corner of Asia and The Further Side of Silence and the novel Saleh: A Prince of Malaya reveals that Clifford's own understanding of the concepts of racial difference and ethnic-racial hierarchies were foremost in his own approach and handling of Malay affairs. Below is an overview of some of the stories written by Clifford that appeared in the edited works In a Corner of Asia and The Further Side of Silence.
‘At the Court of Pelesu’ (1899)
Among the many stories that were written by Hugh Clifford, ‘At the Court of Pelesu’ is perhaps the best-known and most personal. Though the names of the characters and places are fictional, any keen reader of Clifford's work will immediately recognise that the character of Jack Norris is based on none other than Clifford himself, and Pelesu refers to Pekan, the court of Pahang.
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- The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse , pp. 228 - 240Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2016