Chinese Indonesians reassessed
Subtitle: history, religion and belonging
By: edited by Siew-Min Sai and Chang-Yau Hoon
Series: Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series -- 52; Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series -- 52.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780415608015; 9780203095362
Subjects: Chinese
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Chinese Indonesians reassessed : a critical review / Siew-Min Sai and Chang-Yau Hoon; title: The Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan School : a transborder project of modernity in Batavia, c. 1900s / Didi Kwartanada; title: The Nanyang diasporic imaginary : Chinese school teachers in a transborder setting in the Dutch East Indies / Siew-Min Sai; title: Chineseness, belonging and cosmopolitan subjectivities in post-Suharto independent films / Charlotte Setijadi-Dunn; title: Materializing racial formation : the social lives of confiscated Chinese properties in North Sumatra / Yen-ling Tsai; title: The translocal subject between China and Indonesia : the case of the Pemangkat Chinese of West Kalimantan / Hui Yew-Foong; title: The Chinese of Karimun : citizenship and belonging at Indonesia's margins / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford; title: The spirit-mediums of Singkawang : performing peoplehood of West Kalimantan / Margaret Chan; title: "By race, I am Chinese; and by grace, I am Christian" : negotiating Chineseness and Christianity in Indonesia / Chang-Yau Hoon; title: Expressing Chineseness, marketing Islam :  hybrid performance of Chinese Muslim preachers / Hew Wai-Weng; title: A controversy surrounding Chinese-Indonesian Muslims' practice of imlek salat in Central Java / Syuan-yuan Chiou.