Peranakan communities in the era of decolonization and globalization
By: edited by Leo Suryadinata
Contributors: Chinese Heritage Center (Singapore); NUS Baba House
Publisher: Chinese Heritage Centre; NUS Baba House
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9789810917869
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Peranakan (Asian people); Congresses; Chinese
Other titles: Peranakan communities in the era of decolonisation and globalisation
Notes: "On 27 September 2013, the Baba House and Chinese Heritage Centre (CHC) had another joint conference on peranakan Chinese. ... the revised papers were published and are presented here in this book."--Page vii.

"Published with the support of Ms Agnes Tan in memory of her father the late Tun Tan Cheng Lock".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: Peranakan Chinese politics and decolonization Indonesia / Leo Suryadinata; title: The political dilemmas and transformation of the straits-born Chinese community, the era of decolonization / Kwa Chong Guan; title: Peranakan Chinese community and decolonization in Malaya / Lee Kam Hing; title: Chinese heroines as modern women, reading the novels of Ruth Hwang / Neil Khor; title: Modern Peranakan literature in Indonesia / Leo Suryadinata; title: Penang's Baba Businesses and networks, from regional dominance to disintegration and resurgence/disappearance / Wong Yee Tuan; title: Entrepreneurial leadership and familiness in Peranakan Chinese Indonesian business, the case of Putera Sampoerna / Sujoko Efferin, Silvia Margaretha & Aris Suryaputra; title: Museums of the Peranakan culture, local and global impetus / Kenson Kwok; title: Peranakan Chinese community in Indonesia and globalization / Thung Ju Lan.