Chinese Indonesians Reassessed: History, Religion and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780415608015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 226 str.

Siew-Min Sai;Chang-Yau Hoon;¬Abar

Opis

Most studies of the Chinese in Indonesia, who form a significant minoirity with over 4% of the population, and who have played a disproportionately important role, focus on the impact of the Chinese minority, particularly during Suharto's regime, in having brought about an assertion of Indonesian nationalism, which has defined and strengthened itself in opposition to the Chinese internal outsider. In contrast, this book considers the Chinese in Indonesia in a much fuller way, exploring new areas of study. It shows how the Chinese minority is much more diverse, and the picture much richer and more complicated, than previous studies have allowed. Subjects covered include the historical development of Chinese communities in peripheral areas of Indonesia, the religious practices of Chinese Indonesians, which are by no means confined to Chinese religions, and Chinese ethnic events, where a wide range of Indonesians, not just Chinese, participate.

Spis treści

Introduction: Chinese Indonesians Reassessed: A Critical Review  1. The Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan School: A Transborder Project of Modernity in Batavia, c.1900s  2. The Nanyang Diasporic Imaginary: Chinese School Teachers in a Transborder Setting in the Dutch East Indies  3. Chineseness, Belonging and Cosmopolitan Subjectivities in Post-Suharto Independent Films  4. Materializing Racial Formation: the Social Lives of Confiscated Chinese Properties in North Sumatra  5. The Translocal Subject between China and Indonesia: The Case of the Pemangkat Chinese of West Kalimantan  6. The Chinese of Karimun: Citizenship and Belonging at Indonesia’s Margins  7. The Spirit-mediums of Singkawang: Performing Peoplehood of West Kalimantan  8. "By Race, I am Chinese; and by Grace, I am Christian:" Negotiating Chineseness and Christianity in Indonesia  9. Expressing Chineseness, Marketing Islam: Hybrid Performance of Chinese Muslim Preachers  10. A Controversy Surrounding Chinese-Indonesian Muslims’ Practice of Imlek Salat in Central Java

O autorze

Siew-Min Sai is Assistant Professor in the History Department at the National University of Singapore.

Chang-Yau Hoon is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Singapore Management University.