Meneer Baba
Subtitle: Perkembangan Modernisasi Dalam Gaya Hidup Elite Tionghoa Batavia 1900-1942
Edition: Cet.2 (revisi)
Publisher: Yuma Pustaka
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Surakarta
Language: ind
Description: Lifestyle and development of modernization can be an important aspect in assessing social change and the Chinese mentality. This study discusses how the impact of modernization on the Western lifestyle and mentality of the elite Chinese in Batavia in the late colonial period. Elite Chinese majority from among the Peranakan Chinese is a social group that is open and adaptive to alien cultural influences. Primary sources in this study consists of articles in magazines and Chinese newspapers, travel notes, photos documentation, the source of Chinese novels, Indonesia, and West, as well as the utilization of alternative sources such as cartoons and documentaries. Problems in this study is how the influence of Western modernization to the application of an elite lifestyle of the upper peranakan Chinese. Chinese elite lifestyle that seemed luxurious place them as ethnic stigmatize who likes to show off luxury and aligned with the Jews in Europe. The concept of lifestyle and consumption of commodities or Featherstone Chaney can be used as a framework for understanding the elements associated with the application of Chinese elite lifestyle in the late colonial period. These problems can be drawn two questions. How can the spread of Western modernity affect lifestyle and why they apply the Western lifestyle in everyday life. From this study it was found that the application of Western lifestyles due to modernization through the regulatory of government, education, mass media, and social interaction and imitation of Western lifestyles in the Dutch community in Batavia. The use of the symbols of material into an ethnic marker that is associated with social groups on it and also at the same time as a marker of social groups below it. The development of modernity is not only limited to the use of the material symbol, but the increasingly widespread use of the symbol on the immaterial. In general there are six factors that underlie the application of Chinese elite lifestyle in Batavia associated with the development of modernization in the late colonial period and all the logical consequences of the Chinese elite as a change agent (the agent of change) urban urban lifestyle