Chinese Indonesians Reassessed History Religion and Belonging 1st Edition by Siew Min Sai, Chang Yau Hoon 9780415608015 0415608015
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ISBN 10: 0415608015
ISBN 13: 9780415608015
Author: Siew-Min Sai, Chang-Yau Hoon
The Chinese in Indonesia form a significant minority of about three percent of the population, and have played a disproportionately important role in the country. Given that Chinese Indonesians are not seen as indigenous to the country and are consistently defined against Indonesian nationalism, most studies on the community concentrate on examining their ambivalent position as Indonesia’s perennial “internal outsider.” Chinese Indonesians Reassessed argues for the need to dislodge this narrow nationalistic approach and adopt fresh perspectives which acknowledge the full complexity of ethnic relations within the country. The focus of the book extends beyond Java to explore the historical development of Chinese Indonesian communities in more peripheral areas of Indonesia, such as Medan, the Riau Islands and West Kalimantan. It reveals the diverse religious practices of Chinese Indonesians, which are by no means confined to “Chinese” religions, and celebration of “Chinese” ethnic events. Presenting a rich array of historical and contemporary case studies, the book goes beyond national stereotypes to demonstrate how Chinese Indonesians interact with different spaces and environments to establish new Chinese Indonesian identities which are complex and multi-faceted. The book engages with a larger global literature concerned with diasporic Chinese identities and practices and offers sophisticated and empirically grounded insights on the commodification of ethnic cultures and religions.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: The Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan School: A transborder project of modernity in Batavia, c. 1900s
Chapter 2: The Nanyang diasporic imaginary: Chinese school teachers in a transborder setting in the Dutch East Indies
Chapter 3: Chineseness, belonging and cosmopolitan subjectivities in post-Suharto independent films
Chapter 4: Materializing racial formation: The social lives of confiscated Chinese properties in North Sumatra
Chapter 5: The translocal subject between China and Indonesia: The case of the Pemangkat Chinese of West Kalimantan
Chapter 6: The Chinese of Karimun: Citizenship and belonging at Indonesia’s margins
Chapter 7: The spirit-mediums of Singkawang: Performing “peoplehood”
Chapter 8: “By race, I am Chinese; and by grace, I am Christian”: Negotiating Chineseness and Christianity in Indonesia
Chapter 9: Expressing Chineseness, marketing Islam: The hybrid performance of Chinese Muslim preachers
Chapter 10: A controversy surrounding Chinese Indonesian Muslims’ practice of Imlek Salat in Central Java
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